Zortrex announces that they are having another Women Stand By Women Event!
Are you looking to return back to work in cybersecurity/blockchain/smart contracts? We would like to hear from you. We are going to have another Women Stand By Women meeting on...
Evolving the world’s ‘fastest and most private’ mobile keyboard
Fleksy is a fun, efficient, and private content access keyboard, perhaps best known as the keyboard used to set the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message ever written....
UK cyber-defence centre thwarts 1,200 attacks in past two years
The UK’s cyber-defence centre has stopped Britain falling victim to almost 1,200 attacks in the last two years, its annual review reveals. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was currently...
Women stand by women in tech
I was invited to speak at Digital Woman Scotland 2018 and during the conference I heard many voices from women in tech advising that they were finding it very difficult...
Information Commissioner’s Office investigates Conservative’s app data breach
The Conservative Party has apologised after releasing a mobile phone app for its annual party conference that let members of the public log in as senior government ministers and view...
29 million Facebook users affected by hack which allowed accounts to be taken over
Twenty-nine million Facebook users have been affected by a hack which allowed accounts to be taken over, the company has disclosed. Attackers exploited a vulnerability in code connected with ‘View...
Bupa fined £175,000 for ‘systemic data protection failures’
Bupa Insurance Services Limited (Bupa) has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to have effective security measures in place to protect customers’ personal information. Between...
Edinburgh Napier to host ‘world’s first’ Blockchain identity lab
The world’s first dedicated research facility for developing a new form of cybersecurity technology to protect personal data from scammers and hackers has been launched at a Scottish university. Edinburgh...
New action plan announced to boost Scotland’s cyber security industry
A new action plan will encourage the growth of innovative Scottish cyber security research to deliver world-leading cyber security goods and services, Scottish Enterprise said in a statement. The agency...
Five key questions company boards must ask about their cyber security readiness
Experts in cyber security have published new guidance for Britain’s corporate leaders – including five key questions to answer – in order to understand the threats they face in cyber space,...

