Exploiting “Fake News” – GCHQ and the Cyber Cartel
It is now apparent, from sources like the FIPR alerts, that the damage inflicted on NHS systems by Wannacry was much more localised than at first...
An incident waiting to happen – the cyber-crippling of the NHS
The crippling of over 40 NHS trusts by a repackaged piece of elderly ransomware has been used by security consultants to peddle a variety of remedies, such as following better password or...
MPs understand IT better than IT Professional understand politics
Bryan Glick has just written
Help Sadiq Khan deliver a safer and more secure on-line London
Sadiq Khan's manifesto for "A Safer and More Secure London" contains many worthy promises, including to, "Develop a cyber security strategy, led by the Chief Digital officer I will appoint, working with the police and security...
Does the Investigatory Powers Bill go far enough?
I received the press release for the call for evidence by the Joint Scrutiny...
Should priority for reform of UK Investigatory Powers be to protect citizens or the state?
I spent a lot of time helping organise scrutiny of the original bill to regulate investigatory powers. Despite our efforts the result was deeply flawed. The resultant processes were bureaucratic and sclerotic...
Jim Prideaux points out ambiguity in the Budget statement on the future of Government Verify
I was working on a posting on the way the budget and the parallel announcement of the Digital Communications Infrastructure strategy should help transform the climate...
How do we ensure that responses to Hebdo murders do not dishonour 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta?
The would-be killers of Charlie Hebdo (click here for some of the cartons from the resurrection)
are in danger of achieving their objectives:
• an...
Who do you trust less with your digital footprint – Your ISP or Your State Security Service?
On the eve of the meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force last March, the Conservative Techology Forum held a
Why does the Bletchley Park Trust wish to airbrush Colossus out of history?
The Daily Mail press cover for the visit of the Duchess of Cambridge to Bletchley
includes a photograph of