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Dutch voters grasp digital urgency better than their politicians

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As the dust settled on a historically close-run Dutch election, a remarkable trend emerged. While party leaders were focused on traditional campaign issues, voters used their ballots to send a clear message: digital competence in parliament is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. This grassroots movement, spurred on by initiatives such as NerdVote, has…

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6 Free Android TV Apps You Need To Install Before Google Removes Sideloading

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RSplaneta/Shutterstock One feature that makes Android so special is the freedom to sideload APK (Android Package Kit) files, letting you install compatible apps outside the Play Store. The good news is that sideloading Android apps isn’t going away. However, Google is introducing new restrictions on how you sideload APKs, with developers now having to register…

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University will ‘pull the plug’ to test Nutanix disaster recovery

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The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…

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Secure Future Initiative reveals Microsoft staff focus

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Every Microsoft employee now has a metric dubbed Security Core Priority tied directly to their performance review. This is among the changes the software giant has put in place to enforce security internally.  In a blog post outlining the steps the company has taken to harden internal security, Charles Bell, executive vice-president of Microsoft Security,…

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A guide to DORA compliance

7 minutes of reading / API, automation, compliance, Computer, cybersecurity, DNS, endpoint security, network security, risk management, Tech / By

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force on 16 January 2023. Following a two-year implementation period, from 17 January 2025, financial organisations must fully comply with the new regulation, which aims to ensure they remain resilient to severe operational digital disruption. The act covers a number of aspects of cyber resiliency, auditability, and…

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NCSC expands school cyber service to academies and private schools

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is expanding a free cyber defence service to all schools across the country, helping the heavily at-risk education sector enhance its resilience at no cost. The expansion follows a successful roll-out of the NCSC’s Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) for schools in 2023, and the enhanced service will…

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Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm

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A newly discovered series of four dangerous flaws in the Common Unix Printing System (Cups), which is used across virtually all GNU/Linux distros including Debian, Red Hat and SUSE, as well as Apple macOS and Google Chrome/Chromium among other things, is causing alarm bells to ring for security professionals over the potential scope of the…

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NCSC and allies call out Russia’s Unit 29155 over cyber warfare

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart bodies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have joined partners from Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine to identify a Russian military cyber unit that has been conducting a sustained campaign of malicious activity over the past four years. Part of the Main Directorate of…

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RCE flaw and DNS zero-day top list of Patch Tuesday bugs

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A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) stands out as the most serious issue patched by Microsoft in its June Patch Tuesday update, amid another lighter-than-usual drop comprising just over 50 issues. Tracked as CVE-2024-30080, and attributed to China-based researcher k0shl, the flaw enables a remote, unauthenticated party to execute…

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GCHQ to protect politicians and election candidates from cyber attacks

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Political candidates, election officials and others at high risk of being targeted online are being offered protection against phishing and malware attacks in the run-up to the next UK general election. The move follows attempts by Russian intelligence services and hacking groups linked to China to target institutions, high-profile individuals and parliamentarians in the UK.…

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