In the first of a regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, looks at asymmetric keypairs and hashing and how they underpin cryptocurrencies….
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site (w/b 29/04/2019)…
The EU Cybersecurity Act 2018 will create the first EU-wide cybersecurity certification scheme….
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A summary of the most important themes to emerge from this sell-out event, hosted at Reed Smith on 31 January 2019…
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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee on Cyber-Security has issued the ETSI industry standard…
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Finding revealed in DCMS annual Health Check of Cybergovernance at FTSE 350 businesses….
Professor Chris Marsden and Dr Trisha Meyer summarise the recommendations for regulating fake news set out in their report presented to the European Parliament….
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Darren Grayson Chng, our Singapore correspondent, looks at the lessons learned in the aftermath of Singapore’s worst cyber attack that last year saw the breach of 1.5m patient records….
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Reviewed by Daithí Mac Síthigh, Professor of law and innovation at Queen’s University Belfast…
Plain English Guidance aims to help organisations understand the benefits of encryption…
Read More… from New Encryption guidance published by the ICO