‘These are fundamental to empowering individuals’ – ICO takes action against departments and councils over data requests
Ministry of Defence and Home Office are among those reprimanded over major backlogs that caused ‘significant distress’ to individuals. PublicTechnology finds out more.
Death and digital assets: Ministers to consider law reform
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MoD appoints £2m cyber specialist to test Army IT vulnerabilities
Firm will be asked to assess existing and new tech platforms
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Product safety watchdog lacking tech skills and data
New challenges faced by regulator include overseeing smart technology
Queues at airports after Border Force endures ‘systems failure’ of e-passport gates
Home Office claims problem was quickly fixed
MoD to investigate data breach that exposed identities of Afghan interpreters
Email blunder ‘needlessly put lives at risk’ according to shadow defence secretary
MoJ convenes group to boost credentials of electronic signatures
Expert panel intends to implement standards and increase confidence in use of technology
Review of EU laws aims to remove ‘overbearing regulations’ on data and tech
Citizens will also be invited to submit ideas for ‘reducing or eliminating regulation’
Johnson, Biden and Morrison target cyber and AI defence collaboration
AUKUS pact will see nations ramp up work together on defence technology
App-based freedoms and the relentless battle for cybersecurity
As our movements increasingly depend on using our smartphones to demonstrate status, we need to ensure technology is secure, according to Dr Sarah Morris, of Cranfield University.
Birthday messages helped cops bring down digital drug dealer
User of encrypted messaging service sentenced to 10 years in prison
Funding scheme aims to address military vulnerability to cyberattack
Government-run competition seeks to combat possible exposure caused by legacy systems
Messaging app users offered counterfeit NHS Covid Passes
Investigation by PoliticsHome finds Telegram anti-vaccine groups purporting to purvey fake digital and hard-copy certification
MoD offers first-ever bug bounty to find vulnerabilities in defence systems
Department runs 30-day exercise in partnership with ethical hackers
‘We need to use tech to keep up with scams’ – UK advertising regulator
David Currie explains that there is an ‘arms race’ between web platforms and criminals that are equally sophisticated
Cyber Week: what now for the UK’s data-protection regime?
The EU may have granted its former member state adequacy, but there will be many more issues to resolve in the coming years
‘Location is no longer an arbiter of trust’ – what the future of work means for security
PublicTechnology catches up with Richard Meeus from Akamai to discuss how the events of the past year have changed not only how organisations work, but how they protect their workforce
Government puts £700k fund into boosting cyber sector
Money will support the work of the UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration
Data from over 100 Treasury staff devices wiped in 2020 after users entered wrong passcode
More than 5% of all devices were reset
Cyber Week: How government, police and business are working together to protect Scotland
Public and private sector entities support the work of Scottish Business Resilience Centre in protecting organisations across the country from cyberthreats. CEO Jude McCorry tells PublicTechnology about a busy year.
The stigma needs to be removed from cyberattacks
The secrecy and shame associated with cyber incidents needs to be rethought, believes PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall
Cyber Week: council data breaches saw 12% spike in FY21
Study from PublicTechnology identifies increase in incidents
Cyber Week: DWP says security experts stopped ‘large attack’ from organised crime during UC surge
As the department processed 4.3 million new claims, fraudsters attempted to cash in