Robert Scammell
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13 Sep
Octopus-inspired tech senses without central ‘brain’
Researchers have created prototypes of a stretchable silicone structure that can sense and react to stimuli without any centralised processing, or ‘brain’.
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12 Sep
281 arrests in BEC crackdown as FBI reveals $26bn lost to scammers
Law enforcement officials have arrested 281 individuals for allegedly engaging in business email compromise scams in a significant operation spanning across ten countries.
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10 Sep
Tech industry reacts to Brexit latest: ‘Give us certainty’
Parliament is prorogued, the House of Commons speaker is stepping down and prime minister Boris Johnson has lost six votes in as many days.
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9 Sep
Porsche boosts electric car presence with Rimac stake increase
Sports car maker Porsche has boosted its presence in the electric car market by increasing its stake in electric vehicle manufacturer Rimac Automobil.
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6 Sep
Consumers choose voice assistants over humans, report finds
Consumers are coming round to voice assistants so much so that many would rather interact with bots than humans, according to research by the Capgemini Research Institute.
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6 Sep
Monster.com third party data breach exposes CVs
A third party with links to recruitment site Monster has left job seeker résumés and CVs exposed on an online server, exposing personal data.
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5 Sep
Exposed Facebook phone numbers risk SIM jacking and robocalls
An unprotected online server has exposed more than 419 million phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts, potentially putting users at risk of cyberattacks.
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5 Sep
Apollo 15’s Al Worden on Mars, space race 2.0 and astronaut humour
Just 24 people have flown to the Moon, and Colonel Al Worden is one of them.
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3 Sep
38% of enterprises say poor cybersecurity lost them business
From the £99m levied against Marriott hotels to the £183m penalty slapped on British Airways, it tends to be the eye-watering fines that make the headlines.
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30 Aug
Exclusive: Teletext Holidays data breach exposes 212,000 customer call recordings
British travel company Teletext Holidays has suffered a data breach in which some 212,000 customer call audio files were left unprotected on an online server for three years, exposing customer names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.
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28 Aug
Ransomware resurgence as number of new strains grows 118%
A resurgence in ransomware is being driven by a surge of new malware families that are often far more targeted, according to cybersecurity firm McAfee.
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27 Aug
Fraudulent domains trigger record number of legal disputes
UK firms are launching legal challenges over fraudulent domains in record numbers, as criminals attempt to trick consumers into entering personal and financial information into a bogus website.
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23 Aug
IBM unveils first quantum-safe tape drive to protect today’s data tomorrow
Technology giant IBM has unveiled a range of tools to help businesses be safe in the age of quantum computing, including the world’s first quantum-safe tape drive.
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22 Aug
False flag hacktivism on the rise as real activists turn away from hacking
Around the world, hacktivists appear to be hanging up their keyboards.
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22 Aug
Box tackles leaky data with new security tools
Cloud content management company Box has announced a new set of security controls to make it harder for enterprise customers to accidentally leak data.
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21 Aug
Google and Mozilla block Kazakhstan internet surveillance
Internet giants Google and Mozilla have taken action to block the Kazakhstan government from intercepting the internet traffic of its citizens in what appeared to be an online surveillance scheme.
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20 Aug
QR code voter ID pilot paves way for future elections
Scanning a QR code may one day be the way in which voters in the UK confirm their identity, following a pilot in Watford, UK.
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20 Aug
Suprema downplays biometric data leak of ‘one million fingerprints’
Suprema, the biometric and security technology provider that had more than one million fingerprint records accessed by researchers last week, has released a statement downplaying the breach.
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15 Aug
ICO “deeply concerned” by King’s Cross facial recognition
The head of the UK’s data regulator Elizabeth Denham has said she is “deeply concerned” by the increasing use of facial recognition in public spaces.
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15 Aug
Virtual reality may help ease severe pain, study shows
Virtual reality may not have lived up to the consumer hype once vested upon it, but a study has provided further evidence that it may be an effective non-pharmacological option to help ease pain in hospital patients.
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15 Aug
Suprema data breach: What GDPR says about biometrics
The Suprema data breach, in which researchers say they discovered that the fingerprints, voice data, facial images, unencrypted usernames and passwords of more than one million people were publicly available, has drawn the condemnation of security experts and data privacy experts.
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14 Aug
Meet ‘Norman’, the cryptominer malware that evades detection
Security experts have uncovered a new strain of cryptomining malware that employs various evasive techniques to avoid detection.
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14 Aug
WhatsApp fingerprint authentication bolsters Android Beta security
WhatsApp has rolled out fingerprint authentication for users on its beta programme for Android.
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13 Aug
Bigger is better when it comes to wind turbines, report finds
Larger and more-cost effective wind turbines have been key drivers in the uptake of wind energy, according to a new report.
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13 Aug
Smartphone app uses AI to detect diseased bananas
A research project has brought together artificial intelligence (AI), satellites, cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT) to help farmers detect diseased bananas using a smartphone app.
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12 Aug
Elon Musk backs presidential hopeful Andrew Yang and his UBI policy
Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has given his backing to Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and reaffirmed his support of universal basic income – a key policy of Yang’s.
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9 Aug
Coding practice flaw exposes banks, governments to large-scale cyberattacks
A security researcher has discovered that certain coding practices make it possible for attackers to compromise F5 Networks’ BIG-IP load balancer, a device popular among banks and governments for distributing traffic across devices.
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8 Aug
AMD lures Google and Twitter with next-gen data centre chip
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) can now count Google and Twitter among its customers for the next generation of its processors used in data centres.
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8 Aug
Government invests £250m in NHS AI Lab to improve patient care
The UK government has said it will allocate £250m for a National Artificial Intelligence Lab for the National Health Service (NHS) to improve patient care.
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7 Aug
Targeted ransomware attacks on the rise as ‘spray and pray’ attacks decline
The overall number of ransomware attacks may be on the decline but attacks have become more targeted in an attempt to siphon bigger ransom payments, according to research by cybersecurity firm Vectra.
