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China-nexus threat actors are getting better and quicker at weaponising and deploying exploits for newly discovered common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), and in the past 12 months leveraged new vulnerabilities at a “significantly elevated” rate when compared to 2020, according to CrowdStrike’s eighth annual Global threat...
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Every organisation requires an impactful security training programme that hardwires employees to intuitively perform their roles securely.
No matter how advanced technological solutions become, human error and negligence will always be a prevailing risk that organisations must proactively mitigate. Instilling and sustaining good security behaviour is...
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More than half of UK business leaders believe quantum computing is overhyped, according to new research for KPMG. The One Poll survey of 750 business decision-makers found that 55% think it is an overhyped technology.
However, the study also found that many businesses are actively researching...
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London police deployed live facial recognition (LFR) technology in Westminster on Friday 28 January, resulting in the arrest of four people and attracting significant criticism from civil rights groups.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said its facial recognition deployment – which took place the day after...
Source is New York Times
I’ve written about the downsides of companies that bring groceries or prepared food to our doors, like Instacart and Uber Eats. App-based fresh food deliveries take a toll on our neighborhoods and impose punishing demands on workers.But today I want to focus on a...
Source is New York Times
A Japanese company is pushing ahead with plans to launch a private moon lander by the end of 2022, a year packed with other moonshot ambitions and rehearsals that could foretell how soon humans get back to the lunar surface.If the plans hold, the...
Source is New York Times
Regulators may examine Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter but are unlikely to sue to block it, former antitrust officials said on Monday.Bill Baer, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust division during the Obama administration, said enforcers would “look hard to see whether there is...
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The government is facing renewed calls to pick up the pace on pushing through statutory regulation for payroll processing firms, in the wake of a series of cyber attacks against umbrella companies that left thousands of workers across the UK struggling to pay their bills.
Umbrella...
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The number of reports of suspected child sexual abuse has grown exponentially in recent years. The high volume, up from roughly 100,000 in 2009, has overwhelmed both the national clearinghouse and law enforcement officials. A 2019 investigation by The Times found that the Federal...
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The second-highest amount of money is laundered each year in the UK, with an estimated £88bn worth of money cleaned by criminals annually.
Only the US sees more, with £216.5bn laundered annually, while France (£54.5bn), Germany (£51.3bn) and Canada (£25.6bn) also rank among the top five...
