A team of University of Melbourne researchers has been able to re-identify individuals from a public transport dataset, raising serious privacy, safety and security issues. | Continue reading
No one ever got fired for buying IBM. But the over 50s who work there are being dropped as IBM hires a younger workforce | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered vulnerabilities on Visa cards that could be exploited to bypass contactless payment limits and result in huge losses | Continue reading
Nearly a third of top VPNs are secretly owned by Chinese companies, while other owners are based in countries with weak or no privacy laws, potentially putting users at risk, security researchers warn | Continue reading
ABN Amro is working with QuTech to ensure that banks can protect data against quantum computers in the future. | Continue reading
The UK plans to introduce measures to require that basic cyber security features are built into internet-connected devices. | Continue reading
Report by O'Reilly media shines a light on how cloud adoption is progressing across the globe, and how this could be affecting follow-on use of other technologies too | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered another trove of Facebook users’ details, showing there is still no control over data shared with third parties, potentially exposing Facebook to more regulatory and legal action. | Continue reading
Security experts are urging companies using the Magento ecommerce site to apply security updates without delay to avoid a disastrous hacking campaign | Continue reading
Working with MIT and Oxford university, the researchers have looked at how quantum computing can accelerate data classification in machine learning | Continue reading
Working with MIT and Oxford university, the researchers have looked at how quantum computing can accelerate data classification in machine learning | Continue reading
Arguments continue over law that requires companies to work with government agencies to ensure that encrypted communications can be read if a crime is suspected. | Continue reading
China has increased its domestic supercomputer installations to more than double those of the United States, 227 installations in China against just 109 in the US, the November 2018 half yearly assessment of the world’s top 500 supercomputers reveals. More importantly, China has … | Continue reading
The latest version of Apple’s Mac operating system contains a vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to access protected files, a researcher warns. | Continue reading
That Apple became the world’s first trillion-dollar company owes rather more to inflation than to the idea that it’s the most valuable company ever. Given what politicians do to money the first trillion-dollar beer can’t be all that far away either. | Continue reading
A British IT manager and former hacker launched and ran an international Russian-influenced disinformation campaign that has twice provided US President Donald Trump with fake evidence and false arguments to deny that Russia interfered to help him in the election. | Continue reading
Formula One plans to use advanced analytics to improve the data it can show to motor racing fans. | Continue reading
European researchers have made significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, but the dominant players all seem to be based in Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has claimed the social network is ready for GDPR, but failed to give any answers to the most probing questions posed by European MEPs. | Continue reading