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• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  100 million Quora.com user details exposed

  Question-and-answer site is the latest organisation to admit a breach of users’ personal data, with industry commentators calling out credential theft as a top cause of such breaches

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Lloyds to use core banking technology from Google-inspired UK fintech

  Banking group explores cloud-based core banking technology as part of a major transformation programme

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Ada Lovelace Institute gets board to drive AI research for social good

  The Nuffield Foundation has appointed a board to lead the development of the Ada Lovelace Institute as an artificial intelligence and data research body trained on social good

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Liberty heads for judicial review over Investigatory Powers Act

  The UK's powers to conduct supsicionless bulk surveillance on individuals and organisations face a legal challenge in the high court next year

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Digital identity market welcomes plan to hand Gov.uk Verify to private sector

  Players in the UK digital identity community welcome the clarity over the future of Verify, but question marks remain over prospects for government ID system

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  BT announces new head of security business

  BT has appointed a former law enforcement officer and BT investigator as the new head of its security business

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  UK government commits to opening up data in bid to push adoption of AI

  Opening up data is vital to government plans to push adoption of artificial intelligence across all sectors of the UK economy

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  Police investigations into cyber crime up 14% in a year

  Officers forced to follow up over 2,500 complaints of Instagram, Facebook, email and website hacking, and Bitcoin ransom, despite a rise in violent crime, report reveals

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Government mobilises to persuade tech sector to endorse May-EU deal

  Jeremy Wright, the secretary of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, says the prime minister’s deal with the European Union will be good for UK tech, ensuring free flow of data

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• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  CCRC may hold off subpostmaster decision until after Post Office Horizon trial

  The Criminal Courts Review Commission is deciding whether to delay its decision on subpostmasters’ claims of wrongful prosecution until after a related court case

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Cyber crime most significant harm in UK, says top cyber cop

  Cyber crime is the most significant harm in the UK, according to the cyber lead at the City of London Police, which is the national lead for online crime

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Mike Lynch charged with fraud over $11bn sale of Autonomy

  It may be long forgotten, but HP once wanted to be in software and spent a lot of money on Autonomy, which was regarded as one of the hottest tech firms

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Marriott data breach highlights basic failings

  A breach of a guest reservation database of the Starwood division of the Marriott International hotel group highlights basic personal data protection failures

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  WannaCry borderline national cyber emergency

  The May 2017 WannaCry attack, which disrupted services at one-third of NHS trusts and more than 600 primary care organisations is the closest the UK has come to a national cyber emergency, says the NCSC

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  New forms of governance needed to safely and ethically unlock value of data

  Despite today’s abundance of data, most of it remains locked in silos, meaning new governance structures are needed to open it up and unlock its potential value to society