The software security landscape is at an interesting juncture. As Jen Easterly, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), pointed out, there is a lesson to be drawn from the automotive industry of the 1960s. Its approach to improving car safety by building better designs – including seatbelts, crumple zones, and…
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Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any Apple phone or computer user world-wide. The government has used powers under UK surveillance laws to issue a…
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The government stands accused of sending mixed messages about its commitment to positioning the UK as a technology superpower, after publishing guidance that will pave the way for more public sector bodies to host their workloads and applications in overseas cloud environments. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) overseas data guidance dropped on…
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An obscure British government committee is to be asked this month to advise Home Secretary Yvette Cooper whether to go ahead with government demands that Apple provide British agents with a secret backdoor to break into the companies iCloud Advanced Data Protection system, enabling British spies to secretly copy and read users’ private data. …
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In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…
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Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at NatWest Retail Bank, has had a distinguished career leading technology-led change in some of the world’s biggest financial services organisations. Now, she’s using that experience to drive even more innovation. After four years as CIO for collaborative technology solutions with Deutsche Bank, Redshaw says she was eager…
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Throughout 2024, UK government and law enforcement rhetoric around technology largely focused on the role of automation in reducing cost while boosting efficiency and productivity. Since the ascent of the new Labour government in July, there has also been a renewed focus on law and order given its manifesto commitment to “take back our streets”.…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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With the European Union’s (EU) NIS2 regulations now in full effect, IT leaders across the region report that they are struggling to secure budget to support their compliance efforts, with 95% reporting they are being forced to dip into funds reserved for other things. This is according to a Censuswide study of EMEA IT leaders…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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