European court rules companies must tell employees of email and messaging checks
Companies must tell employees in advance if their work email accounts are being monitored, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in a landmark privacy case. In a...
Scots software blocks sale of fakes worth £3bn
An Edinburgh-based team of multi-lingual data analysts is in discussions with Amazon, eBay and China’s e-commerce platform Alibaba about combatting the £1.3 trillion global trade in counterfeit goods. SnapDragon was...
‘Spearphishing, smishing and whaling’ – we’re struggling to keep up, admits cyber cop
Police Scotland hope for co-operation between officers and business as it fights against a rising tide of automated and industrial hacking New and constantly evolving forms of cybercrime have left...
Balancing the right to privacy with the duty to protect
A hack of Firefox and Google Chrome underlines the complexity of the encryption debateThere are few things nicer than presenting some ideas in my home city, Edinburgh, a place that...
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