Last week saw the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference known as COP28 was held in Dubai, involving nearly 200 interested parties. Some expressed frustration over the agreements made not going far enough. In his closing speech, Executive Secretary Simon Stiell admitted that, ‘Whilst we didn’t turn the page on the fossil fuel era in Dubai, this outcome is the beginning of the end. Now all governments and businesses need to turn these pledges into real-economy outcomes, without delay.’
The past year has been marked by several very serious breaches of data. We’ve reported on the ransomware attack on the British Library, the attack on Royal Mail, and showed how an attack on one IT firm affected whole chains of house sales. Just last month, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy produced a damning report on the failure to plan for and tackle this problem.
