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The government has confirmed funding of £36m for a wave of technical bootcamps, paid for out of the National Skills Fund, that are designed to bolster digital and other technical skills and inject a new wave of skilled individuals into the workforce.
Delays in the processs...
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Another two former subpostmasters have had their convictions for financial crimes overturned, following a hearing in Southwark Crown Court.
Oyeteju Adedayo and Parmod Kalia had their convictions quashed in the London court. They were convicted over a decade ago based on evidence from the Horizon accounting...
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The Cabinet Office is inviting technology startups to develop digital and data-related climate solutions as part of its new Tech for Our Planet challenge programme.
Run in partnership with government technology (GovTech) accelerator Public, the programme will allow startups to apply for one of six core...
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The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) developed software to help Dutch police filter life-threatening messages sent by suspected criminals using the encrypted EncroChat phone network.
After placing a “software implant” on an EncroChat server in Roubaix, French investigators began collecting live data from phones on 1 April...
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In a 28-second video, which was posted to Twitter this week by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to launch rocket attacks at Israelis from densely populated civilian areas.At least that is what Mr....
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Last February, when Glauber Contessoto decided to invest his life savings in Dogecoin, his friends had concerns.“They were all like, you’re crazy,” he said. “It’s a joke coin. It’s a meme. It’s going to crash.”Their skepticism was warranted. After all, Dogecoin is a joke...
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As we settle into our new digital lives, where the internet has become our workplace, our classroom, our shopping venue and our social lifeline, our behaviours have changed forever.
While a pandemic-driven increase in cyber crime and an exacerbation of existing fraud trends were, to a...
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In a separate ransomware attack on the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, hackers said the price the police offered to pay was “too small” and dumped 250 gigabytes of the department’s data online this week, including databases that track gang members.In his remarks on...
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Colonial Pipeline paid its extortionists roughly 75 Bitcoin, or nearly $5 million, to recover its stolen data, according to people briefed on the transaction.The payment came after cybercriminals last week held up Colonial Pipeline’s business networks with ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts...
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The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Thursday that its quarterly profit soared by more than 20 times from a year earlier as its revenue skyrocketed, in a sign of how enthusiasm for digital currencies has gone mainstream in the pandemic.Coinbase said it brought in...
