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• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  More than 200 Lloyds Bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training

  Lloyds Banking Group is running a six-month training programme with the aim of building AI skills among its senior leadership

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  4 Day Week Foundation launches tech sector pilot

  UK tech firms are being invited to join a pilot programme run by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which aims to help prepare them for implementing shorter working weeks

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT

  Unsupported and out-of-date software and hardware are hindering the government’s artificial intelligence plans for the public sector

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  ETSI launches first post-quantum encryption standard

  European telco standards body launches its first post-quantum cryptography cyber standard, covering the security of critical data and communications

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Kroll reviewing Post Office Horizon’s current integrity and discrepancy identification

  The Post Office appoints third party to review Horizon following concerns about current version of the system

• March 25, 2025 25 Mar'25

  Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use

  It is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  The Netherlands bets on brain-inspired computing for a greener future

  The Netherlands is building a neuromorphic computing ecosystem, harnessing brain-inspired tech for unprecedented energy efficiency

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  ‘Bankenstein’ and a cold calculation means banking crashes will continue

  Following a three-day crash at Barclays, UK banks were forced to explain to MPs when, how and why digital services became unavailable over past two years

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  NCSC proposes three-step plan to move to quantum-safe encryption

  The NCSC urges service providers, large organisations and critical sectors to start thinking today about how they will migrate to post-quantum cryptography over the next decade

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Government considering redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

  Campaign group brings together the children of subpostmasters to meet Post Office minister to discuss redress for their suffering

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal

  The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Clop resurgence drives ransomware attacks in February

  The exploitation of two new vulnerabilities in a popular file transfer service saw the Clop ransomware gang soar in February, according to NCC

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Former subpostmaster to sue Post Office and Fujitsu for judgment ‘obtained by fraud’

  Lee Castleton, one of a group of seven former subpostmasters who began the fight against the Post Office in 2009, triggers ‘seismic’ shift in Post Office scandal

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture

  New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project

  Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  Online Safety Act measures come into effect

  Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  Satellite technology to provide broadband to remote areas of Buckinghamshire

  Buckinghamshire Council harnesses low Earth orbit technology to serve the most remote areas of the county with ultrafast broadband

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society

  Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will...

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Minister asks for evidence of Post Office ECCO+ system problems

  Subpostmaster federation is calling on former Post Office crown branch staff to come forward if they experienced problems with ECCO+

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  SuperBlack ransomware may have ties to LockBit

  Forescout researchers report on a new ransomware gang that appears to be keeping the legacy of the notorious LockBit crew alive

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  HMRC looks to upgrade SOC with advanced SIEM tech

  HMRC issues a request for information notice ahead of opening up bids for a new security information and event management project that aims to reinforce its ability to respond to cyber threats

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC

  Fujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer

• March 12, 2025 12 Mar'25

  iPhone, iPad update fixes critical WebKit flaw

  iPhone and iPad users are advised to update their devices as Apple addresses an out-of-bounds write issue in the WebKit browser engine that appears to have been exploited in targeted cyber attacks

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  March Patch Tuesday brings 57 fixes, multiple zero-days

  The third Patch Tuesday of 2025 brings fixes for 57 flaws and a hefty number of zero-days

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Musk claims of Ukraine DDoS attack derided by cyber community

  Elon Musk draws criticism after accusing Ukraine of being behind a significant DDoS attack against social media platform X

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Perimeter security appliances source of most ransomware hits

  Perimeter security appliances and devices, particularly VPNs, prove to be the most popular entry points into victim networks for financially motivated ransomware gangs, according to reports

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Post Office scandal data leak interim compensation offers made

  Some subpostmasters affected by Post Office data breach offered interim compensation payments

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  Government announcement on Fujitsu talks add ‘vague words’ and no interim payment

  Peer James Arbuthnot says he is ‘disappointed’ that there was no mention of an interim payment in announcement of government’s latest talks with Fujitsu

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  How CISOs are tackling cyber security challenges

  Security chiefs at the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Sydney share insights on navigating board communication, organisational resilience and the importance of understanding business needs

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  NHS investigating how API flaw exposed patient data

  NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Canadian businessman remains in French jail, accused of distributing Sky ECC cryptophones

  Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman has been held in pre-trial detention without trial for nearly four years – he has once again been refused bail

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Metropolitan Police concern puts brakes on Post Office Horizon data migration

  The Post Office has paused its project to migrate all Horizon data from Fujitsu systems to its own while in discussions with Metropolitan Police

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Aussie businesses ramp up security spending

  Australian organisations are set to spend A$6.2bn on security and risk management in 2025, a 14.4% jump from the previous year, driven by the rise of AI and a growing threat landscape

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Post Office makes first official apology to Capture users

  The Post Office has written to former Capture user Ken Tooby to apologise for its failings which devastated his family’s lives

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again

  A month after Barclays suffered online banking problems, customers at multiple banks report further issues

• February 28, 2025 28 Feb'25

  NHS staff lack confidence in health service cyber measures

  NHS staff understand their role in protecting the health service from cyber threats and the public backs them in this aim, but legacy tech and a lack of training are hindering efforts, according to BT

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  'Positive steps' in redress for Post Office Capture victims

  Lawyers say progress has been made in efforts to provide financial redress and justice for former users of the Post Office's flawed Capture system

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation

  Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  CVE volumes head towards 50,000 in 2025, analysts claim

  Many trends, notably a big shift to open source tools, are behind an expected boom in the number of disclosed vulnerabilities

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard probes UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data

  A secret order issued by the UK against Apple would be a ‘clear and egregious violation’ if it provides back door access to Americans’ encrypted data, says US director of national intelligence

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  CISOs spending more on insider risk

  Insider risk management budgets have more than doubled in the past 12 months and look set to grow further still in 2025, according to a report

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Scottish police fail to record ethnicity in DNA database

  Scottish policing bodies are failing to properly record and publish data on the ethnicity of arrested people, making it impossible to determine whether they are discriminating against certain sections of the population

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI

  The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Singapore rolls out guidelines to bolster cloud and datacentre resilience

  New advisory guidelines to enhance resilience and security of cloud services and datacentres in Singapore amid potential service disruptions and growing cyber threats

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract

  UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  European Union calls for more cyber data-sharing with Nato

  Updates to the EU’s Cyber Blueprint, establishing best practice for multilateral security incident response in Europe, include calls for more collaboration with Nato member states, as the geopolitical environment becomes ever more fractious

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  HMRC working to resolve system glitch that doubles self-assessment tax rebates

  A communications glitch in systems processing tax self-assessments has seen rebates duplicated in ‘very niche scenarios’

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing

  Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  A landscape forever altered? The LockBit takedown one year on

  The NCA-led takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang in February 2024 heralded a transformative year in the fight against cyber crime. One year on, we look back at Operation Cronos and its impact