Robert Scammell
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12 Apr
Bounty fined £400,000 for illegally selling data of 14 million parents and newborns
The UK’s data watchdog has fined pregnancy and parenting club Bounty £400,000 for illegally selling personal details of more than 14 million parents to credit reference and marketing agencies.
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11 Apr
How Julian Assange went from liberal darling to alt-right information kingpin
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, marking an end to the seven-year chapter of his political asylum.
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10 Apr
AI in banking to be worth $300bn by 2030, but millions of jobs at risk
It’s no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly valuable across all industries.
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10 Apr
Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guest data to third-parties
Two out of three hotel websites are unintentionally leaking guests’ booking details and personal data to third-party sites in a widespread hotel data leak, according to cybersecurity firm Symantec.
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9 Apr
Latest sextortion scam speaks your language to steal thousands in Bitcoin
A new wave of sextortion scam emails is targeting victims in multiple languages and locations around the world to blackmail victims into paying thousands of pounds in Bitcoin.
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8 Apr
Blocked, fined, personally liable: UK clamps down on social media firms for harmful content
Social media companies could face a raft of tougher regulations to ensure that they protect their users from harmful content online under new proposed UK laws.
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5 Apr
London Blue scammers target Asia with BEC campaigns
A prolific scamming group dubbed London Blue is now targeting business employees in Asia and using spoofed email addresses to trick businesses into handing over cash.
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4 Apr
Newham Council fined £145,000 for Gangs Matrix breach
The UK’s data watchdog has fined a council in the London borough of Newham £145,000 for disclosing the personal information of 203 people listed on a police intelligence database known as the ‘Gangs Matrix’.
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4 Apr
Facebook data leak: Social media giant haunted by third-party developers
Facebook is once again paying the price for giving third-party developers unfettered access to user data, following a data leak in which millions of user records were found freely available on an Amazon Web Service server.
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3 Apr
Plants integrated with nanomaterials could detect explosives
Scientists have shown how nanomaterials can be added to plants, creating the possibility of giving them useful abilities such as detecting explosive chemicals or harvesting light more efficiently.
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2 Apr
‘Island hopping’ cyberattacks are threatening supply chains
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the world’s sprawling, complex supply chains in a practice known as ‘island hopping’.
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1 Apr
April Fools’ Day: Five tech flops that could have been a joke
It’s April Fools’ Day, which means scores of companies are promoting joke products in the hope of tricking both journalists and consumers into believing their ridiculous ideas are a reality.
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29 Mar
Silver lining in damning Huawei security report, says former GCHQ officer
Huawei is facing fresh criticism after a UK government-led report found “serious vulnerabilities” in its 5G technology – but it’s not all doom and gloom for the Chinese telecommunications giant, a former British intelligence officer has said.
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28 Mar
Huawei security risk: UK report finds “serious vulnerabilities” in 5G tech
A UK government report has found “serious vulnerabilities” in Huawei products and “significant technical issues” in its engineering process.
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28 Mar
AI pacemaker software saves lives by identifying devices in “seconds”
Researchers have created artificial intelligence (AI) software that identifies the make and model of cardiac rhythm devices – such as pacemakers – in seconds, massively speeding up treatment times in potentially life-threatening conditions.
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27 Mar
Over half of IT professionals rely on legacy database tech
Data may be the new oil, but many IT professionals are relying on legacy database technology to manage the highly valuable commodity.
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26 Mar
Article 13 passed: The internet reacts to the ‘death of the internet’
The European Parliament has passed Article 13 and Article 11, the controversial update to Europe’s copyright law, drawing widespread condemnation from technology experts and internet users.
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26 Mar
Biocompatible electronics given “billion-fold” conductivity boost
Scientists have significantly increased the conductivity of a type of melanin skin pigment, opening up the possibility of biocompatible electronics for implantable devices or, more speculatively – human cyborgs.
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25 Mar
Starship Technologies delivery robots arrive on Arizona campus
Students at Northern Arizona University now have no excuse to skip breakfast, because an autonomous delivery robot can bring it to their door “within minutes”.
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25 Mar
Google Home medical app aids physicians during surgery
Researchers have developed an app for the Google Home smart speaker that allows physicians to ask for and receive recommendations about medical device sizes during surgery.
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22 Mar
Facebook password blunder may have exposed more than social media accounts
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords visible in plain text to the platform’s employees, potentially creating security vulnerabilities on third-party sites that use the same passwords, cybersecurity experts have warned.
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22 Mar
Beyond the honeypot: How military-inspired deception tactics are snaring cybercriminals
During World War II, a ghost army fooled Adolf Hitler.
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20 Mar
NotPetya, WannaCry: The privatisation of nation-state capabilities threatens us all
Few people know more about the threat of cyber terrorism than Malcolm Taylor.
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19 Mar
NVIDIA autonomous vehicles given a ‘Safety Force Field’ to prevent crashes
GPU maker NVIDIA has created software for autonomous vehicles that adds an extra safety net to prevent collisions.
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19 Mar
Vote Leave fined £40,000 for sending unlawful Brexit “spam texts”
The UK’s data watchdog has fined Vote Leave £40,000 for sending unlawful campaign texts during the 2016 Brexit referendum.
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18 Mar
$2bn Lyft IPO beats Uber in race to go public
Ride-hailing company Lyft has announced an initial public offering in which 30.77 million shares will be sold between $62 and $68 per share.
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15 Mar
Canada proposes cryptocurrency regulation amid QuadrigCX scandal
Canada is proposing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges, which is being seen as a direct response to the loss of $137m in crypto assets in the ongoing QuadrigaCX scandal.
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15 Mar
Netflix algorithm repurposed to detect tumours
Researchers have repurposed a Netflix algorithm designed to predict users’ film preferences to assist with biological image analysis.
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14 Mar
Hackers steal passport details from Pakistani Government site
Cyberattackers have compromised a Pakistani Government website, allowing them to log the keystrokes of visitors entering sensitive information into a passport application site.
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13 Mar
What can the crypto world learn from the QuadrigaCX cold wallet lockout?
Cold wallets, an offline piece of hardware designed to protect large amounts of cryptocurrency from being hacked, are considered best-practice among exchanges.
