Month: August 2020

With unemployment rising rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many more people likely to lose their jobs soon as the government’s furlough scheme nears its end, stolen identities are becoming increasingly valuable and are being openly sold on the dark web with the aim of conducting Universal Credit benefit fraud.

That is according to researchers at cyber intelligence firm IntSights, who have identified multiple cyber criminals offering scamming lessons and tutorials on how to commit benefit fraud in several countries, including the UK.

The UK’s Universal Credit system – which was designed to be a predominantly digital service

The New Zealand government has called in its national cyber security services to investigate as the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) remains offline for a fourth day of trading following an unprecedented volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that has targeted the organisation through its network service provider.

The Auckland-based exchange had briefly resumed trading on the morning of Friday 28 August, but was again forced to cease trading due to network connectivity issues, and – at the time of writing – the exchange’s website remained inaccessible from a UK IP address.

In reported remarks made at a press

The University of Staffordshire is using software robots to automate processes across the organisation as part of its digital transformation.

After horizon scanning and fact finding, the university is a few months into the roll-out of a project which is using Blue Prism Cloud to access robotic process automation (RPA) software.

Andrew Proctor, chief digital officer (CDO) at Staffordshire University, who graduated in software engineering at the university 20 years ago, said the first set of automated processes were in the finance department. Proctor’s team now plan to take automation much further. “We have a long roadmap of how