Last month Ticketmaster UK warned that some of its customers may have had their payment data stolen by cybercriminals. At the time Ticketmaster firmly put the blame with a third-party provider, Inbenta.
Inbenta consequently blamed Ticketmas...
Vodafone have this week proudly displayed two new wearables, their latest technology offering. They include a band and a watch which Vodafone say will enable parents to stay in contact with their offspring, particularly ‘when parents star...
Last week saw the 22nd anniversary of the founding of Hotmail. Launching in 1996, its founders, Californians Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith introduced one of the first webmail services on the Internet, alongside RocketMail which would later b...
The NHS confirmed it had recently suffered a major data breach that left 150,000 patients’ sensitive health-related data exposed.
It transpired the data breach took place through a coding error in the software used by GPs. The software is...
The UK government’s long awaited and beleaguered Biometrics Strategy Report, first announced in 2012, has finally arrived and it amounts to just 27 pages. Of these, three are cover and contents, one is the ministerial forward, two as a gl...
In our joined-up, high-tech lives making sure we are safe when going on holiday is an absolute necessity. Increasingly this includes our devices. Here then is our cybersecurity checklist you should cover when about to go on holiday, while t...
If you’re the type who worries we are sleepwalking into an Orwellian high-tech world, you may want to look away now. We’re here today to check out some of the many patents Facebook has applied for.
The New York Times looked at ...
The Emergency Services Network (ESN), the government’s flagship project is floundering. In a tense session in front of the Public Accounts Committee, managers admitted that they had laid-off 70 members of staff, with further plans to lay ...
New research from cybersecurity firm Centrify has shown that the generation gap between young workers and their bosses is alive and kicking when it comes to apportioning blame for security breaches.
Centrify’s survey of 500 senior decisio...
In the finest wartime tradition frustrated residents of a tiny Welsh village decided to take things into their own hands and got together to dig 15 miles of trenches to lay their own superfast broadband cables.
Lying between Cardiff and New...
