Canon Finally Confirms August Attack Exposed Staff Data

Three months after the media reported Canon had 10TB of data stolen, the firm finally confirms staff data has been…

4 years ago

UK Government To Ban Installation Of New Huawei 5G Kit

Government to stop mobile operators installing stockpiled Huawei 5G equipment from September 2021, after purchase ban of new kit

4 years ago

Microsoft Criticised For ‘Workplace Surveillance’ Feature

Microsoft 365 Productivity Score feature, introduced last month, criticised for analysing 'extensive data' on individual employees' activities

4 years ago

Facebook Removes Thousands Of Illegal UK Ads

Facebook removes more than 2,000 ads exploiting health fears and selling dubious Covid-19 cures in first half of 2020 as…

4 years ago

Huawei Founder Calls Honor Sale A ‘Clean Break’

Sell-off of Honor consumer brand should allow newly independent company to 'very quickly' resume production formerly hobbled by US sanctions,…

4 years ago

European Commission Approves French Fibre Acquisition

Altice/SFR gets the go-ahead to buy wholesale rival Covage, but will spin off its fibre-to-the-office operations into an independent unit

4 years ago

Disruption Continues Two Weeks After Manchester United Cyber-Attack

Manchester United has confirmed it was struck by a 'sophisticated' cyber-attack but declined to comment on reported ransom demands

4 years ago

Government Told To Open Up On AI Decision-Making

Government advisory body publishes roadmap to 'responsible' use of AI and algorithms, following summer chaos over computer-determined school grades

4 years ago

North Korean Hackers Target AstraZeneca For Covid Vaccine

North Korean hackers pose as recruiters on LinkedIn and WhatsApp, to send job offer documents laden with malware to AstraZeneca…

4 years ago

UK To Implement Tougher Competition Rules On Tech In 2021

Competition and Markets Authority to implement tougher competition laws on tech giants such as Facebook and Google in 2021

4 years ago

Facebook’s Libra To Launch In January – Report

Libra to launch as early as January, but the Facebook backed cryptocurrency will be scaled back even further after regulatory…

4 years ago

Foxconn Moves Some Apple Production To Vietnam

Foxconn is reportedly moving the manufacturing of some iPads and Macbooks out of China to Vietnam, at the request of…

4 years ago

Trump Administration Grants ByteDance TikTok Sale Extension

ByteDance granted seven day extension by Trump administration of TikTok sale order to new company including Oracle and Walmart

4 years ago

Tech Giants Face Fines Or Even Break-up, Warns EU Digital Head

New European rules to rein in big name tech firms will include the power to potentially break-up firms, EU digital…

4 years ago

Amazon Web Services Restored After Outage

Amazon's cloud service on Wednesday suffered a widespread outage impacting parts of the Internet, but normal AWS operations have now…

4 years ago

Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts Full Fibre Broadband Rollout

Government finances are hurting. Delay to ambitious plan to roll out gigabit broadband to every home in UK by 2025,…

4 years ago

Bristol City Council Data Breach Revealed Names Of Disabled Children

Mass email from the council contained the names and email addresses of children with special educational needs and disabilities

4 years ago

France Warns Big Tech To Pay Digital Tax In December

Pay up, pay up. France issues notices to big name tech firms such as Amazon and Facebook, to prepare to…

4 years ago

Twitter To Relaunch Verification Scheme In 2021

New Twitter policy on how prominent people and organisations can earn the blue tick verification mark, is to be launched…

4 years ago

India Bans Another 43 Mobile Apps In China Confrontation

Fresh tranche of mobile apps (most of them Chinese) have been banned by the Indian government amid ongoing dispute with…

4 years ago

Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gates As World’s Second Richest

Tesla share price rises continues to build the personal fortune of Elon Musk, placing him in second place behind Amazon's…

4 years ago

UK Telcos Face Large Fines For Using Huawei Kit

New security bill promises to fine big British telecom firms over £100,000 a day, if they continue using Huawei equipment

4 years ago

OneWeb Emerges From Bankruptcy For UK Space Push

Government confirms it has secured satellite internet firm OneWeb to help fulfill UK's “ambitions to be at the forefront of…

4 years ago

IBM To Axe 8,000 Staff In Europe – Report

Big Blue is reportedly planning to lay off 8,000 staff across Europe, with 2,000 positions expected to go in the…

4 years ago

Apple Security Boss Charged With Bribery

Head of security at Apple charged with bribery, over allegations of donation of 200 iPads in return for four concealed-weapon…

4 years ago

Hackney Council Confirms Hack Still Causing ‘Significant Disruption’

London Hackney council confirms that a 'serious cyberattack' in October is still causing 'significant disruption' to services

4 years ago

Will Privacy Kill the Open Web?

Privacy and how the personal data of individuals is collected, stored, manipulated and shared is governed by GDPR. However, some…

4 years ago

UK Government, Facebook, Google, Twitter To Tackle Covid Misinformation

Major social networking platforms team up with the UK government and Full Fact Chariy to fight misleading information about Coronavirus

4 years ago

US Regulators Begin Consultation On Self-Driving Car Safety

Authorities begin public consultation on ways to improve self-driving car safety, ahead of new safety standards for autonomous vehicles

4 years ago

World’s Worse Passwords Revealed By NordPass

Oh dear, Despite persistent cyber threats, research from NordPass reveals the most commonly used password is still '123456'

4 years ago