It was decades ago when you could first pay for items online using a credit card; debit card payments followed. The security of such payments was often iffy in the commercial internet’s early years. Database breaches of unsecured information made for easy pickings. These days, a combination of factors has improved the safety of paying…
Apple is making a big play with passkeys, the first real alternative to the humble password that we’ve seen in a long time. But it hasn’t even gotten its password situation right yet.Apple’s been syncing people’s saved usernames and passwords for a long time as part of the iCloud Keychain feature. There are plenty of…
UK policing and justice bodies must be able to prove that their increasing use of public cloud infrastructure is compliant with law enforcement-specific data protection rules, says the biometrics commissioner. As commissioner for the retention and use of biometrics, Fraser Sampson is responsible for overseeing police use of DNA and fingerprints in England, Wales and…
The Post Office will pay £16.5m to extend a contract with Fujitsu after fundamental technical challenges meant its planned migration to the cloud could not be completed in time. In 2021, the Post Office extended its IT services contract with Fujitsu while it prepared to migrate IT from the supplier to another, as yet unspecified,…
“The fastest-growing storage company in history.” That’s the claim made by Vast Data, which has announced it has gone from a run rate of $1m to $100m in three years. Meanwhile, the company has embarked on what regional director for EMEA, Alex Raistrick, calls “Act 2” of its story, in which Vast plans to continue…
