Month: July 2016

The long-awaited hearing into the security services' bulk collection of communications data, including personal information, opened in London today. Privacy International, the organisation behind the...

The recently approved Privacy Shield framework can be made into a fully robust and workable framework for data transfers, but requires work to get there, according to the European Article 29 Working Party...

Next wave of ransomware expected to be more pervasive, resilient and capable of spreading quickly and effectively throughout networks by capitalising on vulnerabilities

Amazon is working with regulator CAA to enable trials of Amazon’s Prime Air drone to take off in the UK

A critical bug has been found in the Xen hypervisor that allows privilege escalation in a para-virtualised (PV) guest. Xen is an open source hypervisor used by Amazon, Rackspace and IBM clouds, and is...

The global CIO at Save the Children discusses why one size never really fits all and how IT is transforming to provide digital initiatives

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a lithium-oxygen battery that offers the light weight of lithium-air without its drawbacks. Lithium-oxygen batteries have long...

Many companies are still not applying the best technologies, policies and procedures to ensure sensitive data is protected in the cloud

Media company will give undergraduates a taster day at its headquarters to attract the best tech talent

O2 customer data has been found for sale on the dark web, but the firm has denied being the victim of a breach. The BBC learned about the data haul, which includes O2 users' personal information such...