Two more Post Office Horizon scandal convictions referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which warned against referring similar cases “en masse”. The appeals of former subpostmasters Therese Gooding and Ian Davies will now go to Southwark Crown Court. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 736 subpostmasters who ran Post Office…
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Britain’s most secret court is investigating claims that UK agencies unlawfully monitored the phone communications of two Northern Ireland journalists. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has agreed to investigate whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PNSI), Durham Constabulary, GCHQ and MI5 used intrusive surveillance in an attempt to identify the journalists’ sources. Trevor Birney…
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The government has introduced an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that it says will require the regulator to conduct extra scrutiny before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages for illegal content. The amendment to the bill will add an extra review stage before the regulator requires tech companies to scan the content of…
A majority of IT workers looking to move company are doing so to earn more money, according to research by Computer Weekly. The annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey asked IT workers the main reasons they were actively looking for new roles or might be open to new work opportunities, to which 58% said earning more money…
Almost 60% of people seeking a new role are doing so for cash Read More »
Following its investigation into the $61bn deal between Broadcom and VMware, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found the deal does not weaken competition. The independent CMA panel looked at concerns that the deal could harm the ability of Broadcom’s rivals to compete if the merged company were to make their products work…
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While the cyber security industry has existed for decades, when it comes to digital business, never has there been such anxiety about the safety of our digital spaces. The spheres of high finance, defence, healthcare, critical infrastructure and our personal lives rely on online nervous systems susceptible to attack by malevolent forces. As more devices…
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The Russia-aligned KillNet hacktivist group, which has been behind a string of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Western targets since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, continues to steadily ramp up its capabilities and is likely using newly created or absorbed affiliate groupings to conduct more impactful attacks, but its primary goal likely…
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Privacy campaigners are urging Parliament to address a clause in the government’s upcoming Online Safety Bill that would force tech companies to screen people’s communications for illegal content, after legal opinion from Matrix Chambers identifies “real and significant issues” around its lawfulness. The opinion – which was delivered to Open Rights Group (ORG) by Dan…
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