A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth.
When deployed, the platform will support the safeguarding of UK waters from the threat of mines at sea, operating a range of uncrewed systems that will help keep personnel at a safe distance.
Based at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde, the 96.8 metres long vessel – the length of two Olympic swimming pools – will work side-by-side with autonomous mine-hunting systems already operated by the Royal Navy out of Faslane under Project Wilton.
Cequence Security’s API Security Testing offering empowers security teams to run at the speed of business by enforcing consistent protection standards across production and pre-production API environments
LONDON, UK: Cequence Security has announced it has enhanced the testing capabilities within its Unified API Protection Platform with the availability of API Security Testing. This API Security Testing framework encourages shift-left efforts by giving security and development teams the tools to quickly uncover and remediate API vulnerabilities in pre-production environments that could otherwise lead to business disruption in production. To learn more about the new testing capabilities, request a demo here.
Dragos Inc has announced it has appointed Kurt Gaudette as Vice President of Global Threat Intelligence. Gaudette brings more than 30 years of operational and technical intelligence experience to Dragos and will lead the company’s world-class team of adversary hunters, threat analysts, research engineers and analytic developers to discover, track, and disrupt threats to industrial control systems across the globe.
“Why are we even letting younger kids have smart phones when they are clearly not safe? (and when Ofsted chief inspector recently said that primary and early secondary age children shouldn’t have smart phones). What’s more, the tech companies are continuing to make billions from this attention (addiction) economy. The online safety bill, while it has great intentions will a. not come into effect immediately and b. won’t deal with issues of peer-to-peer sexting, scamming, grooming and addiction. If we can’t rely on legislation, or the tech companies taking responsibility, safer internet day can only mean educating parents in order to empower them. They are at the front line of being consistently pressured to buy their kids devices, then struggling to protect them. Once parents start changing their minds about what’s acceptable, the culture around kids and tech can change.”
Survey reveals parents are losing control over what their kids are seeing and doing online
A YouGov poll, commissioned by Teched Off, of more than 1,000 parents reveals that the vast majority (78%) aren't fully confident they've set adequate controls on their children's devices. A further 11% haven't set any controls at all.
A parallel study by Teched Off* found that:
80% of parents are worried their child/children is/are addicted to a device
80% of parents are worried about what their child/children is/are doing or seeing online
85% of parents believe their child's/children’s tech use sometimes interferes with family life
Of the parents who haven’t set controls, 38% haven’t done so because they find them too confusing
In short, there are lot of children out there still seeing (and sharing) all the wrong things. Children are roaming the wild west of the online world, and parents are rightly worried.
The ill effects range from negatively impacting schoolwork and concentration, to dopamine-related addiction, premature sexualisation, online bullying, damaging attitudes to the opposite sex, negative self-image leading to self-harming, risk of exploitation by sexual predators, risk of exploitation by scammers, risk of radicalisation and so on. Young people’s mental health has been dubbed ‘an epidemic.’ (See teched-off.com)
Even if the Online Safety Bill succeeds in protecting children from the worst content, it won’t be immediate – or necessarily watertight. Legislation moves slowly and won’t necessarily deal with all the issues above, and we can’t expect the tech companies to take full responsibility – so parents need to know what their children are seeing and doing online.
As founder Miranda Wilson says ‘We’ve let tech organisations monetise our children’s attention and our children are paying a profound price. TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat and YouTube revenues are all in the billions in no small part thanks to us parents losing control.’
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