GDS seeks to transform tech procurement across government
The Government Digital Service is seeking to transform the procurement of technology across the civil service. The procurement reform playbook is d…
Islington Council fined £70,000 for breach that exposed medical data
Islington Council has been fined £70,000 for failing to secure the personal data of 89,000 users of its parking ticket system website. The council&…
Charlottesville: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will remove threats of physical harm
Mark Zuckerberg has outlined Facebook’s response to white supremacist violence in the wake of a far-right rally that led to the killing of a …
Apple’s Tim Cook condemns Trump’s response to violence in Charlottesville
Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of critics who have slammed Donald Trump’s response to far-right violence in Charlottesville. Cook t…
Scottish Parliament cyber attack is ongoing, say officials
A “brute force” cyber attack on the Scottish Parliament remains ongoing but has not breached defences, officials said this afternoon. T…
IT Leaders: NHSBT CDO Aaron Powell on testing analytics with IBM Watson
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) looks after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the d…
Intel’s Brian Krzanich steps down from Trump’s manufacturing council
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has stepped down from Donald Trump’s manufacturing council in protest against the president’s response to far-…
Should you really phish your own employees?
No. Please don’t. It does little for security but harms productivity (because employees spend ages pondering emails, and not answering legitimate o…
TechUK calls for “near universal” superfast broadband by 2020
TechUK has laid out its vision for the UK’s communications infrastructure in a new report that calls for superfast broadband of 30Mbps to be …
Elon Musk says AI is vastly more risky than North Korea
Elon Musk cautioned that artificial intelligence poses “vastly more risk” than North Korea as he renewed his call for regulation of the…
SpaceX and HPE are about to send a supercomputer into space
Elon Musk’s Dragon spacecraft is due to deliver nearly three tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) this week. Onboard will…
Former MI5 director becomes the latest ex-spy chief to back encrypted messaging
Jonathan Evans, a former head of MI5, has pledged his support for encrypted messaging in an interview with the BBC. He told Radio 4’s Today P…
Sadiq Khan appoints “not spot team” to boost broadband connections in London
Sadiq Khan made eliminating connectivity “not spots” a key pledge when he stood to be the mayor of London last year. Today, as he appoi…
4G on the Tube: mobile coverage coming to Underground trains from 2019
Passengers on the London Underground will be able to make calls, send texts and browse the web from 2019, Sadiq Khan promised today. The project wi…
The Information Commissioner takes aim at GDPR myths: “Maximum fines will not become the norm”
The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, is seeking to dispel myths about the EU’s incoming General Data Protection Regulat…
IT Leaders: Hackney Council CIO Rob Miller on moving away from an IT or digital strategy
When Rob Miller joined Hackney Council in June 2016 as its director of ICT, he was fortunate enough that the organisation had already been through …
UK broadband lags behind most of Europe, researchers find
The UK falls behind most of Europe in the latest global ranking of broadband speeds. With an average of 16.5Mbps, Britain ranks lower than 19 Europ…
Marcus Hutchins: hero hacker’s court appearance postponed
The hero hacker credited with stalling WannaCry had been due to appear in court today to answer cyber crime charges related to separate malicious s…
NIS Directive: Essential service providers could soon face £17m fines for poor cyber security
Essential service operators that fail to adopt effective cyber security measures could face fines of up to £17m or 4 per cent of annual turnover un…
Government’s tough new data privacy plans largely well-received
The government has promised to strengthen data protection legislation in a statement of intent that has been welcomed by privacy campaigners and th…
Monzo CEO Tom Blomfield issues frank apology about outages
The CEO of challenger bank Monzo has issued a frank apology to users after a run of card outages left some unable to make payments at times this we…
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