A row is brewing between the UK government and overseas territories over the age-old bugbear of offshore companies. By the end of the decade, Parliament intends to ensure that records of public ownership are freely available in jurisdictions such as the Caymans, the Virgin Islands and Bermuda – or it will ‘compel’ them to be […]
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The laziness of hackers is making them smarter. Technological advance is offering new techniques to malign actors and honeypots provide the opportunity to observe how hackers operate. In new types of attack the “dirty work” is carried out by the machine drastically cutting human involvement and time. What it is worrying is not only that
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The investigation into the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the blogger and investigative journalist killed by a bomb planted in her car, remains open. After six months the progress appears to be null and who ordered the murder has not yet been identified. Just bad luck, or an intentional and deliberate cover up by the
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Presented for your consideration: a recipe for disaster. Take one part secret history and the desire to conceal it, one part the ability to recreate such truths as you may desire, and blend well with an inability or unwillingness to question. Served together, this is a recipe found only in one place… not the Twilight
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News comes that in recent days, the UK launched a large-scale cyber-attack on Islamic State designed to “hinder and suppress” the group’s ability to co-ordinate and spread their words. While one might find it strange for a sovereign government to openly admit to this kind of provocation, the specific dynamics surrounding IS at least make
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Robotics are on the rise and any development that comes through in the world of tomorrow – be it robot priests, completely automated Amazon shops and warehouses or the Virginia Tech robot that can open doors – will normally be met with some variation of the phrase “This is how Skynet begins!”. But if we
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The closing down of the law firm Mossack Fonseca is only few days away. The firm has in fact announced that it will terminate its operations at the end of the month, after more than 40 years of service. The decision came after irreparable damage was inflicted on the firm as a result of the
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The Cambridge Analytica saga has confirmed, as if further evidence was needed, that your data is less secure than ever. Whether there was genuine loss of oversight or deliberate malfeasance, the hard truth is that millions of people – and billions of relationships – were used illicitly, and that this is not likely to be
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As the fallout from the attempted murder of the Skripals continues, attention is turning to what punitive action could be taken against Russia – and how the Kremlin might respond in kind. While there seems agreement that this will not go well for Britain, what should not slip under the radar is the degree to
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Good news, bad news. Even as due diligence proliferates among law firms and corporates, with the general consensus being now (after years of dancing around the issue) that actually, this is kind of A Big Deal, there is still self-sabotage being carried out by the beneficiaries of the service themselves. It is an interesting conundrum:
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