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The industrial control systems (ICS) that underpin our critical national infrastructure (CNI) are facing ever-increasing risk, and the immediate risks to ICS and other operational technology can be seen in the growing incidence of ransomware, changing connectivity and increased attention.
Ransomware can have a devastating effect...
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When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world.Using a computer required a set of esoteric skills typically reserved for...
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Meet the private browsersFirefox Focus, DuckDuckGo and Brave are all similar, but with some important differences.Firefox Focus, available only for mobile devices like iPhones and Android smartphones, is bare-bones. You punch in a web address and, when done browsing, hit the trash icon to...
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Here’s what you need to know:The Texas Tribune, a digital news outlet in Austin, is losing two of its leaders.Stacy-Marie Ishmael, the editorial director, and Millie Tran, the chief product officer, said on Tuesday that they planned to leave The Tribune next month, a...
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Market size matters, but even small changes have an outsize ripple effect.
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Marks and Spencer’s CIO, Carl Dawson, is leaving the company after six years to take on the CIO role at supermarket Asda.
Dawson will be a full-time replacement for Asda’s previous CIO, Phil Tenney, who left the retailer in December 2020.
Asda’s chief operating officer, Anthony...
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Civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy has trumpeted a legal victory over Matt Hancock regarding the NHS Covid-19 data store’s use of software from data mining company Palantir.
OpenDemocracy engaged legal firm Foxglove to initiate legal proceedings, in February 2021, against the UK government for extending the “emergency”...
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A disruptive cyber attack on a “chain” of schools in London and the South East, which has left around 37,000 pupils unable to access email, has again highlighted the vulnerability of educational institutions to targeted ransomware attacks, coming just days after the UK’s National Cyber Security...
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The UK government stands accused of failing to act quickly enough to push through legislation to ensure IT contractors receive the correct pay and benefits when working through umbrella companies.
As previously detailed by Computer Weekly, thousands of contractors could be in line to receive compensatory...
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30 March 2021
The ticking timebomb of IR35
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In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal that IT contractors are seeking a multimillion-pound payout after confusion over the forthcoming IR35 tax reforms. Many firms are building data...
