Robert Scammell
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24 Oct
Leading healthcare algorithm biased against black patients
A healthcare algorithm used to decide whether millions of US patients received access to a high-risk care management programme demonstrated “significant” racial bias against black patients.
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24 Oct
Morrisons targeted by bogus ‘William Wilke’ email
Who is William Wilke?
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23 Oct
Zuckerberg quizzed over Libra / Annual Privacy Shield review / Tesla announces Q3 results
3 THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD TODAY Good morning, here’s your Wednesday morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead.
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22 Oct
Firefox 70 lets you see the companies tracking you online
Firefox has launched a feature that lets users view the companies tracking them as they browse online.
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22 Oct
Home Group data breach hits 4,000 housing association customers
Home Group, one of the UK’s biggest housing associations, has suffered a data breach in which thousands of personal details are believed to have been stolen.
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22 Oct
Watch Lilium’s electric air taxi soar in test flight
Electric air taxi startup Lilium has successfully completed its first phase of test flights, bringing it one step closer to flying customers across cities.
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22 Oct
World Energy Day / Space fans gather for International Astronautical Congress / UPS reveals Q3 earnings
3 THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD TODAY Good morning, here’s your Tuesday morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead.
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21 Oct
Productivity drain: 60% of work is about work, survey finds
From email to spreadsheets, there are many ways in which technology has made our working lives easier.
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21 Oct
Assange extradition hearing begins / World Internet Conference in full swing / DC Fintech Week gets underway
3 THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD TODAY Good morning, here’s your Monday morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead.
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18 Oct
‘Start with the impact, not the tech’: Hitachi Vantara’s smart city approach
Smart cities leverage technology built into the city’s infrastructure to manage resources more efficiently.
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18 Oct
First all-female spacewalk / Extinction Rebellion protesters charged / Data and privacy focus of US House select committee
3 THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD TODAY Good morning, here’s your Friday morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead.
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17 Oct
Brits more likely to ditch Facebook than Huawei, survey finds
UK consumers are more likely to stop using Facebook’s products and services than Huawei’s, according to a survey conducted by open-source communications software provider Open-Xchange.
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16 Oct
Germany will not preemptively ban Huawei from 5G networks
Germany has announced that it will not preemptively exclude Huawei’s 5G technology from being used in its mobile networks.
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14 Oct
Zeynep Tufekci: Get a red team to ensure AI is ethical
In cybersecurity, red team professionals are tasked with finding vulnerabilities before they become a problem.
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14 Oct
Skyrora tests its most powerful rocket yet in key milestone
UK space company Skyrora has successfully completed the first phase of tests for its 30 kilonewtons (kN) rocket engine.
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10 Oct
Hitachi Vantara unveils “fastest NVMe array on the planet”
Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Japanese tech giant Hitachi, has unveiled a new data centre that it claims to be the “fastest NVMe [Non-Volatile Memory Express] array on the planet”.
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7 Oct
Mikko Hyppönen: Smart devices are “IT asbestos”
The proliferation of “stupid” internet-connected smart devices will be the “IT asbestos of the future”, cybersecurity expert Mikko Hyppönen has warned.
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4 Oct
5G the biggest future cybersecurity threat, warns Trend Micro researcher
5G will create the biggest future cybersecurity threat according to Rik Ferguson, vice president of security research at Trend Micro.
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3 Oct
Tom Van de Wiele Q&A: Reflections of a red teamer
Tom Van de Wiele gets paid to break into a company and steal their secrets.
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1 Oct
What’s a deepfake? 72% of Brits don’t know
Do you know what a deepfake is?
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27 Sep
76% of Brits want more say in AI development, finds Samsung report
Whether it’s saving a life or driving you to work, 76% of the British public want more say in how artificial intelligence (AI) systems are developed, according to research conducted by Samsung.
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26 Sep
Remote Desktop Protocol a cyber-risk in 90% of organisations
Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a popular tool among IT system administrators, is an increasingly attractive method of attack that allows cybercriminals to remain undetected, according to cybersecurity firm Vectra.
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25 Sep
99% of misconfigured cloud servers go undetected says McAfee
A staggering 99% of misconfigured cloud servers in public cloud environments go undetected, according to cybersecurity firm McAfee, putting organisations at risk of a data breach.
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24 Sep
EU’s right to be forgotten ruling leaves questions unanswered
The EU’s top court has ruled in favour of tech giant Google in a landmark case about the ‘right to be forgotten’, but privacy and legal experts have warned the issue has not been fully resolved.
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23 Sep
Malindo Air says ex-third party contractors behind data breach
Two former contractors were responsible for the Malindo Air data breach in which millions of passenger details were posted on underground forums, the Malaysian airline has said.
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23 Sep
High-profile YouTube accounts hacked in coordinated phishing attack
Scores of high-profile YouTube accounts were hacked over the weekend in a “coordinated” phishing attack, according to an investigation by ZDNet.
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20 Sep
Lion Air data breach files bounced around forums for over a month
Malindo Air, a subsidiary of Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air, has confirmed it suffered a data breach, which saw millions of passenger details posted on data exchange forums for over a month before its was disclosed.
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19 Sep
NCSC warns of university cyber threat from nation states
UK universities are an attractive target for both financially motivated cybercriminals and nation states, according to a new report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
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18 Sep
AWS Transformation Day: 4 tips for successful cloud projects
The benefits of working in the cloud – from improved productivity to reduced costs – are well known by enterprises.
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16 Sep
Ecuador data breach exposes 21 million records, Julian Assange included
Researchers have uncovered a large data breach thought to impact the majority of the population of Ecuador, including records belonging to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
