With cybercrime revealed to cost Scottish businesses an estimated 5bn academics are urging firms to ensure IT staff have the right skills to overcome new and emerging threats. To enable them to do that, Edinburgh Napier University is ...
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European Union The initial Europe wide ban only applies to general-purpose, non-directional incandescent bulbs, so does not affect any bulbs with reflective surfaces (e.g. spotlights and halogen down lighters) or special purpose bulbs ...
The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and reduce billions of dollars worth of waste across major industries such as healthcare, energy and ...
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A ‘troll’ arrested on suspicion of aiming a torrent of abuse at a fellow Facebook user has been identified as a 32-year-old policeman from the UK, it has been revealed. Nicola Brookes, 45, from Brighton, UK was targeted ...
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Experts, including fashion designers, retailers and university professors, have requested the Government of UK to promote textile and apparel production in Britain. Speaking at a conference titled 'A New Dawn: Rebuilding UK Textile ...
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The UK government has provided funds to Endomagnetics to explore the clinical feasibility of applying magnetic sentinel lymph node (SLN) technology for detecting melanoma cancer. The grant is a part of the first round of ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Google has agreed with the UK government to pay just pound 6m in corporation tax this year, despite earning almost pound 400m in revenues. The Daily Telegraph revealed the sum after the Silicon Valley giant filed its accounts for its UK ...
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Hundreds of thousands of US public sector workers have access to cloud-based collaboration software from UK IT firm Huddle after two major US government departments sign up. A version of Huddle used by the UK government, which sits on a ...
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The UK should declare cyber war on states and criminals who target the country by using aggressive retaliatory strikes, says Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC). The call comes in the ISC's annual report, which says too ...
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The UK government has injected a second round of cash into its pound 25m Higher Apprenticeship Fund. The funding aims to develop 4,230 new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including low-carbon engineering, space engineering, legal ...
Many organisations continue to rely on ineffective intrusion prevention systems (IPS) for defending information systems, says security firm Stonesoft. Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) – which combine several known evasion ...
Schools in Estonia are set to have a web and mobile application development curriculum, which will be taught to students as young as seven. The Estonian Tiger Leap Foundation has launched a programme called “ProgeTiger” this ...
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A member of hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a hack targeting GoDaddy,the world's largest domain name registrar,which has resulted in thousands of websites being brought down. The US service provider hosts ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...