Bill Goodwin

The UK and its allies have only a “narrowing window” to stay ahead of technology threats from Russia and China, the head of the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ will warn today. Director of GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, will say that the UK needs to step-up cyber security and make it “ten times more urgent” in the face of “increasingly brazen behaviour” from adversaries. The world is facing a “new era of radical uncertainty, contested geopolitics and rapidly changing technology,” the director will say in a lecture at Bletchley Park, the war time home of the organisation that became GCHQ.

GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler confirms plans to build a national cyber defence capability using AI agents to defend critical infrastructure at ‘machine speed’.

MEPs have written to the European Commission calling for action following revelations that Europol and Frontex processed, stored and transferred personal data in ways that raise serious concerns about compliance with EU law.

UK proposals for mandatory age verification will not mitigate children’s exposure to harmful content and ‘addictive’ app design, and risks excluding vulnerable groups from online services, says Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Study of IT leaders finds businesses that succeed in deploying agentic artificial intelligence (AI) start by rethinking their business processes.

Pegasystems offers an alternative take on how enterprises can use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate their business processes without burning through their budgets.

MPs are calling on the government to reduce the UK’s dependency on big technology companies amid concerns that the UK is over-reliant on overseas suppliers, posing national security and economic risks. An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) calls for the government to publish a digital security strategy to assess the risks of relying on overseas technology in critical infrastructure.

Hackers will use AI-enabled cyber capabilities to exploit known vulnerabilities in legacy technology at scale by 2028, says National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne.

The UK’s information commissioner, John Edwards, has resigned his position following a work place investigation into undisclosed allegations. Edwards said in a statement that he accepted that there had been occasions when “he exercised poor judgement” and had “made attempts at humour that were inappropriate.” In a post on LinkedIn, Edwards said that as a result he had decided that it was appropriate to resign from his position. “I do not wish to be a distraction from the ICO’s important work”.

Powerful AI models could be used to conduct cyber attacks within a matter of months, western intelligence agencies warned today, placing governments and businesses at greater risk. The leaders of the Five Eyes cyber security agencies, which include the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, warned today that “Frontier AI” models will pose a greater risk to cyber security than expected. “The rapid pace of frontier AI development means cyber risk assumptions can become outdated in months, not years. We must act before and be prepared to adapt and withstand evolving threats,” the agencies said in an unprecedented warning. Their advice echoes concerns that hostile states such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea may rapidly catch-up with AI capabilities developed by the US and available to organisations in Europe, giving them offensive cyber capabilities far in advance of today.