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Fashion retailer FatFace has paid a $2m ransom to the Conti ransomware gang following a successful cyber attack on its systems that took place in January 2021, Computer Weekly has learned.
The ransomware operators had initially demanded a ransom of $8m, approximately 213 bitcoin at the...
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After a failed initial public offering and the near implosion of its business in 2019, WeWork said Friday that it had agreed to a deal that would take the beleaguered co-working company onto the stock market.Instead of a traditional I.P.O., WeWork is merging with...
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Every day the Pas-de-Calais (PdC) fire brigade receives requests for call recordings from the police and courts. Such emergency calls are all recorded and must be retained for 15 years.
But the optical media used to store them had become increasingly onerous to use. Not least...
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The stress of remote working for 12 months during a global health crisis unseen in a century is causing more people to slip and make basic cyber security errors, according to a newly released report compiled for security firm Forcepoint.
During the first wave of the...
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The UK has made good progress on overall cyber security, but a sense of complacency risks upsetting the apple cart and too many people are still not taking cyber security issues as seriously as they should, according to Lindy Cameron, recently appointed CEO of the UK’s...
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A one-of-a-kind digital collectible item created out of a New York Times technology column sold for more than $500,000 in an auction, the first such sale in the history of the newspaper.An image of the column — titled “Buy This Column on the Blockchain!”...
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers grilled the leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday about the connection between online disinformation and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, causing Twitter’s chief executive to publicly admit for the first time that his product had played a...
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is warning that huge gaps exist in British law over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) at work, which will lead to discrimination and unfair treatment of working people.
A report produced for the TUC by employment rights lawyers Robin Allen...
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UK fund managers Aviva Investors and Aberdeen Standard have said they will not buy Deliveroo shares ahead of the firm’s initial public offering (IPO) in April, citing concerns over its riders’ working conditions and pay.
Deliveroo is currently targeting a market capitalisation of £8.8bn, which is...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Today there is yet another congressional hearing about an internet law that is older than Google: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Please don’t stop reading.Odds...
