Banks on alert for Russian reprisal cyberattacks on Swift
NurPhoto | Getty Images Big banks fear that Swift faces a growing threat of Russian cyberattacks after seven of the country’s lenders were kicked off the global payments messaging system...
Cross-party group of MPs calls on Loan Charge contractors to participate in call for evidence
IT contractors who have found themselves in-scope of the government’s controversial loan charge policy are being urged to participate in a call for evidence overseen by a group of...
Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild
Cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus are weak enough to be broken instantly using commodity hardware, a researcher reported on Monday. This revelation is...
Supreme court refuses Julian Assange extradition appeal
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an application by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to appeal against extradition to the United States. The US is seeking to prosecute Assange...
UK businesses struggling to support flexible work
The challenges of the pandemic have driven and are continuing to drive employees restless, yet just over three in five employees in the UK don’t believe their company’s policies...
Encryption myths versus realities of Online Safety Bill
UK politicians – just like the rest of us – rely on encryption all day, every day, to protect their physical safety, keep their conversations private, and safeguard their...
Russia’s disinformation machinery breaks down in wake of Ukraine invasion
For decades now, Vladimir Putin has slowly, carefully, and stealthily curated online and offline networks of influence. These efforts have borne lucrative fruit, helping Russia become far more influential than...
Why Russia’s “disconnection” from the Internet isn’t amounting to much
Rumors of Russian Internet services degrading have been greatly exaggerated, despite unprecedented announcements recently from two of the world’s biggest backbone providers that they were exiting the country following its...
Nokia and Hrvatski Telekom conduct first 25G PON fibre broadband trial in Croatia
With the operator looking to “radically” increase the capacity, bandwidth and quality of its future broadband service and the comms tech firm adding a new country to demo its...
600 public buildings in Wales get full-fibre broadband
The UK government has announced that more than 600 hospitals, police stations, libraries and other public buildings in Wales have been connected to full-fibre broadband. The government said the...