Show us the money
The Government announced this week it would be revealing more about what each department was spending tax payer's cash on.
In an announcement made today, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude confirmed any spending over 25,000 would be unveiled on the data.gov.uk website.
Prime Minister David Cameron also said Government contracts over 25,000 would be released online from January, enabling more small and medium business to get in on the act.
Facebook's Gmail killer'
The rumours had been circling for a while but finally Facebook has announced its new messaging service, unimaginatively named Messages.
The new service offers "@facebook.com" email addresses, along with priority inboxes and link ups with existing profiles.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of the leading social network, announced the new service at the Web 2.0 conference held in San Francisco this week and confirmed it would be rolling out to users over the next few months.
Best of the rest
The debate on net neutrality has kicked of again this week as communications minister, Ed Vaizey, gave his backing to a two-tier system allowing ISPs to charge content providers for quicker access to their sites.
More malware was produced each day in the third quarter of 2010 that ever before, according to a McAfee report, with a staggering 60,000 new pieces hitting the web daily.
Cloud computing early adopters were rewarded this week, with a new report from Fujitsu showing they were saving, on average, a quarter of their costs for each cloud-based project.
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The UK cybersecurity sector is worth over £13 billion, but experts say there’s huge untapped potential if it can overcome these hurdlesAnalysis A new report released by the DSIT revealed the UK’s cybersecurity sector generated £13.2 billion over the last year
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"Thinly spread": Questions raised over UK government’s latest cyber funding schemeThe funding will go towards bolstering cyber skills, though some industry experts have questioned the size of the price tag
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Threat of cyber attacks to national security compared to that of chemical weaponsNews The UK government has raised the threat level posed by cyber attacks, deeming it greater on average than an event such as the Salisbury poisoning
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2022 Public Sector Identity Index ReportWhitepaper UK Report
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Latest Meta GDPR fine brings 12-month total to more than €1 billionNews Meta was issued with two hefty GDPR fines for “forcing” users to consent to data processing
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UK and Japan strike digital partnership to collaborate on IoT security, semiconductorsNews The two countries are also set to align their approaches to digital regulation to make it easier for companies to operate in each nation
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Defra's legacy software problem 'threatens' UK gov cyber security until 2030News The department spends over two-thirds of its digital budget on maintaining the risky applications, with no plan in place for a fix within the decade
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Netherlands urges citizens to prepare survival kits in case hackers target critical infrastructureNews The latest campaign from the national coordinator for security echoes the growing concern in the UK government over serious cyber attacks
