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Like so many other events that were due to talk place this summer the 22nd ISPA Awards have shuffled themselves around the calendar and finally the shortlists for each category can be shared.

ISPA has announced the nominees for the Internet Hero and Internet Villain categories with the winners to be announced at the awards ceremony in London on Thursday 11th July 2019.

With just over four weeks to go it is time to nominate who the ISPA Council should consider for the awards Internet Hero and Internet Villain on 11th July 2019.

The ISPA Awards are now in their 21st year and as usual the categories have opened for registration in December with registration running well in January 2019.

The impact of the recent resignations over Brexit has resulted in Jeremy Wright QC MP being appointed as Secretary of State at DCMS since Matt Hancock MP is replacing Mr Hunt as health secretary.

The VPNFilter malware is able to infect a number of broadband routers but to date tools to help people quickly check if there are affected have been hard to find, but with the launch of a free tool by Symantec at least some aspects of this IoT malware can be checked for.

The CEO of Gigaclear has been awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

The work for the annual ISPA Awards starts back in December and with just over two months to the final awards ceremony on 12th July the shortlist of 67 nominees has been published for what is set to be a very special 20th anniversary set of awards.

After the promotion of Matt Hancock MP this left a gap in the role of Minister for Digital and Margot James the MP for Stourbridge has been appointed.

The Minister for Digital position is now vacant as Matt Hancock MP has been promoted to the position of Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.