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By Michael Moore Paying for travel around the United Kingdom could be made easier with the introduction of a proposed nationwide contactless system similar to that of London’s Oyster card. The plans aim to introduce contactless payments on buses and trains all over the country in a bid to simplify how customers purchase and use […]

By Michael Moore Workers may need to take extra care about who they are speaking to after a top European court ruled that companies are within their rights to monitor and read private messages sent by their employees during work hours. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read one employee’s […]

Today’s topics include IBM and Ford teaming up on a new cloud-based analytics platform, Qualcomm is at odds with seven tech vendors, SGI will build the next-generation supercomputer for climate research, and Citrix is selling its cloud management products to Accelerite. Ford and IBM have teamed up to deliver a new cloud-based analytics platform that […]

By Matthew Broersma Hackers who disabled the BBC’s online services last week and targeted Donald Trump’s presidential campaign Website over the weekend have stated that the attacks were “a test” in preparation for actions against Islamic State’s (IS) online operations. A group calling itself New World Hacking (NWH) said it was responsible for the distributed […]

By Michael Moore 2015 has been a great year for the online and mobile payments industry, as the technology has truly moved into the mainstream. From tube stations to gasoline fill-ups to your local supermarket, businesses of all sizes are now accepting digital payments of every kind, making paying for goods and services easier than […]

By Ben Sullivan British intelligence agency GCHQ has created its own repository on GitHub, and has already open-sourced one of its tools. Called Gaffer, the tool is described by GCHQ as “a large-scale graph database.” “Gaffer is a framework that makes it easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics […]

By Matthew Broersma Hackers have released thousands of login credentials and other data from the Web servers of the European Space Agency (ESA) following a breach of several of the agency’s Internet domains on Monday. The hackers, who are part of the Anonymous collective, posted the data in three separate dumps on JustPaste.it, a code-sharing […]

By Tom Jowitt Growing awareness of the security risks posed by airborne drones has prompted police in Japan to create a dedicated drone squad. The drone squad is equipped with a specialized drone that can intercept nuisance drones using a net to disable the target drone. Nuisance Drones According to the BBC, the police drone […]

By Tom Jowitt The United Kingdom has been identified as the leading originator of DDoS attacks, in Akamai’s latest Security State of the Internet report. It comes after the firm had previously noticed that the frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to rise, as instances of “mega attacks” became more common. DDoS […]

By Michael Moore The French government is set to consider a series of recommendations for monitoring online activity in the country following the terrorist attacks in Paris last month that could see the use of Tor banned and free WiFi networks restricted during a state of emergency. The proposals, one concerning counter-terrorism and the other […]