How the Parliamentary Digital Service is working to keep the Commons secure
Following a major cyberattack and revelations of shared passwords, the team charged with protecting Parliament has been on a drive to help MPs stay safe
Government invests £15m to boost cybersecurity of Commonwealth nations
Countries also sign cyber cooperation pledge
Government’s lack of action on WannaCry is ‘alarming’ – PAC
Report from MPs says that, a year on from the cyberattack, government and the NHS must now take...
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Local councils implore government to provide GDPR compliance funding help
Sector organisation writes to Matt Hancock and other MPs to express concerns
HMRC gets back on track with digital customer service in 2018
Department’s monthly figures show improvements in response times across the board, despite far greater volume of enquiries
LGA helps councils fight fake news
Local Government Association issues advice to citizens
Public sector executive pay should be linked to cybersecurity
James Wickes of Cloudview believes regulators need to take steps to sharpen senior managers’ focus on cybersecurity
London councils’ GDPR-compliance budgets range from £1,000 to £300,000
Policy paper from Parliament Street think tank recommends increased use of shared services
Law to require slaughterhouses to install CCTV
Three months’ worth of footage must be made available to regulators
Top-tier data-processing fees rise sixfold to £2,900 in new ICO funding structure
Large organisations that process personal data will see their annual subsidy contribution rise from £500
Barnsley kicks off early-engagement exercise for digital-mobility plans
Local authority issues call for input from potential suppliers
NHS calls for more developers to get involved in apps library
More external assessors likely to be appointed as health service looks to become foremost provider of digital health tools
Treasury Committee to examine digital-currency regulation
‘It is time Whitehall and Westminster understood cryptocurrency better’, committee member declares following period of extreme fluctuations
Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital consultant Eccles picked as NHS CCIO
Dr Simon Eccles becomes the health service’s most senior medical leader for technology, replacing Keith McNeil
Government launches anti-terror tool to ‘stop video propaganda before it ever reaches the internet’
Home Office claims machine-learning software developed in conjunction with ASI Data Science could be of use to smaller platforms such as Vimeo, Telegra.ph, and pCloud
West Yorkshire Police to roll out mobile scanners for on-the-spot fingerprint checks
Devices are designed to check against national criminal and immigration databases and return results in under a minute
NHS, local government, and ICO impacted by cryptojacking attack
National Cyber Security Centre claims public is not at risk after malicious code for generating cryptocurrency added to Browsealoud text-to-speech tool
Interview: government chief security officer Campbell McCafferty on his mission to make government ‘the hardest target it can be’
First-ever holder of GCSO post discusses how to remove barriers, break down siloes, and ‘deliver much more consistency’ in security strategy
Newcastle seeks to build online platform to help with assisted living
Council to consult with potential suppliers about digital system for helping citizens maintain independence
Ensuring cybersecurity is vital for a driverless future
Erik Silfversten and Nathan Ryan of RAND Europe discuss why built-in cybersecurity is as important a safety concern as any for manufacturers and legislators involved in the autonomous-vehicle space
Foreign Office reveals it lost one PC every six weeks in last three years but claims robust defences mean ‘they do not pose a security risk’
Response to FOI request also reveals that department spends £66m a year on IT
Government launches review of online trolling laws
Law Commission asked to analyse whether and how statutes need to be changed to ensure they are fit for the internet age
West of England to undertake innovation audit in bid to foster world-leading tech
Government-backed initiative aims to identify areas where region could become a global leader in science and technology
Government confident Capita will not follow Carillion into disaster
Cabinet Office speaks out after Capita profit warning to assert that none of its suppliers ‘are in a comparable position to Carillion’