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The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Dowden, confirmed the plans earlier today
Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait The United Kingdom government has banned use of Chinese social media platform TikTok among ministers and officials on their work devices as a “precautionary” measure over worries the app is used to snoop on Brits.…
NatWest warns of "life-changing" customer losses
Euler Finance suffered "flash loan" attack
A threat that needs two orgs to tackle it: the 'Integrated Security Fund' and the 'National Protective Security Agency' Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 will oversee a new agency tasked with helping local organizations combat Chinese cyber-spies and other threats]…
Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking Opinion Around the world, a vital technology is failing. Just as massive solar flares fry satellites and climate-change superstorms overwhelm flood defences, so a new surge of ridiculous IT-related events is burning out irony meters across the globe.…