GCHQ historian Dave Abrutat’s mission to preserve the UK’s forgotten signals intelligence history

Dave Abrutat, GCHQ’s official historian, is on a mission to preserve the UK’s historic signals intelligence sites and capture their stories before they disappear from folk memory. A new... Read more »

Spirit of openness helps banks get serious about stopping scams

Recent announcements show that banks, financial services firms and IT companies are increasing efforts to curb online scams Read more »

Investigative reporter files legal action over police surveillance and social media monitoring

Journalist complains to Investigatory Powers Tribunal after Northern Irish police placed him under surveillance as he investigated their handling of a high-profile murder  Read more »

Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs

Microsoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’ Read more »

NCSC issues warning over Chinese Moonshine and BadBazaar spyware

Two spyware variants are being used to target the mobile devices of persons of interest to Chinese intelligence, including individuals in the Taiwanese, Tibetan and Uyghur communities Read more »

DeepSeek will help evolve the conversation around privacy

The rise of DeepSeek has prompted the usual well-documented concerns around AI, but also raised worries about its potential links to the Chinese state. The Security Think Tank considers... Read more »

What is sustainability risk management (SRM)?

Sustainability risk management (SRM) is a business strategy that aligns profit goals with a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies. Read more »

Spoofing vuln threatens security of WhatsApp Windows users

Meta has disclosed and patched a potentially dangerous spoofing flaw in WhatsApp for Windows that could have caused big problems for unwitting users Read more »

IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17

IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities Read more »

It’s time to stop the victim-blaming and insist on safer software

Businesses spend too much time and money protecting themselves against flaws and vulnerabilities in modern software products, when they ought to raise their expectations and insist on better solutions... Read more »
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