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A previously misfiring smartphone app to help track transmission of the coronavirus will be trialled again in parts of England following two months of troubleshooting, the government said on Thursday. The updated version of the tracing app will undergo renewed trials on the Isle of Wight, off the southern English coast, and among health volunteers nationwide, ahead of further tests in an east London district.
Computer misuse crimes down 9% on last year in England and Wales, says Office of National Statistics
Computer misuse crimes across England and Wales have declined over the past year - with credential theft attacks remaining more or less flat in the pre-COVID reporting period. The Crime Survey of England and Wales recorded a total of 876,000 incidents of computer misuse affecting 743,000 adults across the UK over the past year, a figure that was down by 9 per cent on 2019's total of 966,000 incidents.
Account takeovers allegedly used to plunder digital wallets Two men from Massachusetts have been arrested and charged with 11 criminal counts stemming from a string of account takeovers and...
The UK privacy regulator has fired a £0.5M shot across Facebook's bows in the looks-set-to-go-on-for-ages "Cambridge Analytica" saga
But Solving Cybersecurity Problems Requires More Than Pounds and PenceFollowing the WannaCry outbreak, the British government says it's increased cybersecurity funding for England's national...
