Code maintainers around the world are now thinking about their vulnerabilities at a strategic and tactical level. It is not only their code itself they will be worrying about, but also their code distribution mechanisms and software assembly processes.

We’ve been slower than other advanced economies to emply digital technologies that can not only boost productivity, but cut emissions in the process.

The new condition will come into effect on July 1 and require a licence holder to have a business continuity plan in place suitable for the size and scope of the business.

It would be helpful if the PR campaign against China was supplemented with a decent investment at a natonal level in cybersecurity, an area we have woefully underspent in as a nation.

The big question now is who created the malware and what was their motivation for creating a security backdoor that could have compromised computer systems all over the world if it had been introduced into operating environments.

Telecommunications provider Spark will next month launch a SMS “scam firewall” for its mobile customers which will automatically detect known fraudulent text message content