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Verint Systems selected as official supplier of Web Intelligence solutions to the UK police forces
2019-07-22 01:00

Verint Systems, a global provider of data mining software for Cyber Intelligence, announced it has been selected by The UK Police ICT Company as an official supplier of Web Intelligence solutions...

Huawei Question Must Be Answered by New UK Prime Minister
2019-07-19 13:18

Delay is Damaging International Relationships, Parliamentary Committee WarnsA powerful parliamentary committee has called on Britain's new prime minister - be it Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt - to...

Excluding Huawei from UK's 5G will harm security, MPs warn
2019-07-19 12:31

A decision must be made as a 'matter of urgency', says Intelligence and Security Committee Excluding Huawei from the UK's 5G network infrastructure would harm resilience and "lower security...

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee
2019-07-18 12:59

Latest call to halt creepy tech likely to fall on deaf ears The government should slap a "moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology, with "no further trials" until there is...

Facebook rolls out anti-scam reporting tool in UK
2019-07-17 11:11

Facebook has coughed up £3m to help launch an anti-scam service as well as introducing a tool to report scam ads on its UK site.

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk
2019-07-16 17:00

And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has had another busy year trying to disrupt cybercrime.…

Alan Turing chosen for the UK’s new £50 note – a cracking result!
2019-07-16 01:28

In case you were wondering, scientists really can change the world, and change it for the better, too.

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UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials
2019-07-12 13:30

1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are As if further indication was needed of Britain's slide into a surveillance state, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has backed highly flawed police...

UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped
2019-07-10 15:09

They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways The Information Commissioner's Office issued £3m worth of fines for data breaches in the year to April 2018 – a mere fraction of its...

Marriott to Contest $124 Million Fine Imposed by UK Data Protection Regulator
2019-07-10 12:04

Marriott International says it will fight a large fine resulting from a massive data breach that was discovered in 2018. read more