The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
Civil rights groups have highlighted a “worrying lack of transparency” in how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK’s social security system. According to separate reports from Amnesty International and Big Brother Watch, both published in early July 2025, the opaque use of AI systems by the…
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A European trade body is facing criticism for striking a deal with Microsoft that allows its members to host and resell the software giant’s cloud offerings with preferential pricing terms. The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers In Europe (CISPE) trade body has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will see its members offered revised pricing…
With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…
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Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, is speaking at this week’s Infosecurity Europe conference about cyber criminal trends. Ransomware, and other varieties of cyber attack on the public, are, he said, becoming commoditised beyond the traditional provenance of Russian-speaking expert coders. Lyne has worked in law enforcement for over 15…
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Another Post Office scandal could be avoided if leaders in public bodies understand the “black box” IT systems that run their organisations and encourage a “speak up” culture, according to a Parliamentary report. In its latest report, Recognising and responding to early warning signs in public sector bodies, the Committee on Standards in Public Life…
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Users of Apple devices in the UK are “at the most risk in the world” of being hacked, following a secret government order requiring the tech company to allow ‘backdoor’ access to its users’ encrypted data, the House of Lords heard on Monday 31 March.Liberal peer Paul Strasburger pressed the government to answer questions about…
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A newly launched campaign group is calling on former subpostmasters in Scotland to come forward if they were affected by the Post Office’s Horizon scandal. The group, known as the Scottish Postmasters for Justice and Redress, will be officially launch on 2 April 2025 at the Scottish Parliament by former subpostmaster Rab Thomson, who had…
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The government set out plans in the Autumn Budget 2024 to commission another independent review of the Loan Charge policy that – in its words – will “help bring the matter to a close for those affected whilst ensuring fairness for all taxpayers”. This description was seized on by contractors in scope of the policy…
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