For nearly four decades, Jean-Luc Picard of “Star Trek” has largely been presented as genteel, erudite and at times buttoned up.
Looking to explore a spam link from a text message. How to stay secure?
I want to explore a link that was sent to me in a text message. It’s obviously a phishing attempt and I’m curious on where it leads and I just want to check out the code in it and what not. Would running a VM be the best way to do this? submitte…
Cyber attribution: Vigilance or distraction?
Cyber attribution is a process by which security analysts collect evidence, build timelines and attempt to piece together evidence in the wake of a cyberattack to identify the responsible organization/individuals. Cyber threat attribution stems from th…
UK life expectancy growing at slower rate than rest of G7, research shows
Widening inequality blamed for UK lagging behind all other countries in G7 except the USLife expectancy in the UK has grown at a slower rate than comparable countries over the past seven decades, according to researchers, who say this is the result of …
‘Hostile, authoritarian’ UK downgraded in civic freedoms index
Civicus Monitor cites hostility towards campaigners and charities, and clamp down on public protestsThe UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose rest…
Steve Barclay accused of breaking pledge over NHS staff abuse data
Exclusive: Union decries failure to publish statistics as Labour claims ministers ‘burying their heads in the sand’ over attacksNHS staff have accused Steve Barclay of breaking a pledge to publish details of how many of them are abused and assaulted in…
UK ministers under pressure to tighten laws on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Vast numbers of people drinking water with levels that would be banned in the US, research showsPressure is building on UK ministers to tighten regulations on PFAS “forever chemicals” as research shows vast numbers of people are drinking water with lev…
Cocaine smuggling and production at record high since pandemic retreat
New UN report says there has been a 35% spike in 2020-21 in the production of coca, the drug’s base ingredientSouth American drug cartels have capitalised on the retreat of the Covid-19 pandemic to produce and smuggle record amounts of cocaine around t…