Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet

AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech Read more »

Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder victim of mass Oracle breach

Employee data at US-based cosmetics firm Estée Lauder was compromised through a vulnerability in Oracle’s software, likely orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang. Read more »

How Lithuania became a tech startup nation

Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars Read more »

Does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill make you feel secure?

The UK government’s latest cyber security regulations are hugely important but remain riddled with inconsistencies and vagaries – substantial changes are needed before it becomes law Read more »

Palantir: Can anyone else do what it does?

Palantir is a US defence-intelligence company, born from the CIA’s venture arm that now operates inside the UK public sector. We examine the claim that its technology does what... Read more »

Scattered Spider hackers sentenced over TfL attack

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, the hackers behind the 2024 TfL cyber attack, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms at Woolwich Crown Court Read more »

Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders

Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds. Read more »

Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs Read more »

CW@60: An adventure into cyber security

Cyber security expert Rik Ferguson charts an unlikely career from The Hobbit through childhood thespianism to the cutting edge of cyber defence Read more »

Made in Spain: Surveillance tech banned in EU booms in India

From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company... Read more »
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