Amazon has vowed to create 1,000 new jobs for researchers, software developers and machine learning scientists across…
Has cyber crime really fallen by 30 per cent in a year?
On Thursday (18 October), the Office for National Statistics published the results of its latest crime survey, and it…
Facebook confirms breach affected three million European users
Facebook has confirmed that three million European users’ accounts were affected when it suffered a major breac…
Health secretary’s plan to overhaul NHS IT raises funding questions
The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has unveiled his vision to build what he says will be “the most advanced he…
Atos joins forces with Google Cloud to launch London AI lab
French IT services giant Atos has joined forces with Google Cloud to launch its first artificial intelligence lab. Th…
NCSC defends UK against 10 cyber attacks a week and most come from hostile nation states
The National Cyber Security Centre has dealt with ten cyber incidents a week since it launched two years, and the maj…
The week in govtech: the biggest tenders and awards (15/10)
This is the latest instalment in an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partners…
NCSC: Retailers should stop selling insecure connected devices
The National Cyber Security Centre has urged retailers to stop stocking internet connected devices which fail to meet…
WannaCry ransomware attack left the NHS with £73m IT bill
The WannaCry cyber attack that swept through dozens of hospitals across the country last year cost the NHS a total of…
Security vendor Imperva to go private in £1.6bn deal
Security vendor Imperva has agreed to sell to Thoma Bravo, a US private equity fund, for around $2.1bn (£1.6bn). The …