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'Near-global' initial access campaign active since 2021 An initial-access subgroup of Russia's Sandworm last year wriggled its way into networks within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, stealing...
Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their...
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware...
Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech...
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Planning portal back online with a more secure connection Reading Borough Council has securely restored its planning portal after facing criticism for recommending questionable tech security...
Staff at NHS Lanarkshire - which serves over half a million Scottish residents - used WhatsApp to swap photos and personal info about patients, including children's names and addresses. This, the watchdog said, "Demonstrates that information governance expectations regarding WhatsApp were not understood by staff involved in the WhatsApp Group."
Britain's data watchdog has slapped a financial penalty on two energy companies it claims were posing as third parties, including the National Grid and UK government, when making unsolicited marketing calls. Both were deemed by the Information Commissioner's Office to have contravened the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations Act - Section 21 in the case of Crown Glazing, and Section 21 and 24 by MPS. The ICO found that between January and November 2021, Crown Glazing made more than 500,000 direct marketing calls to people on the TPS, and this generated 37 complaints.
A 23-year-old British citizen has confessed to "Multiple schemes" involving computer crimes, including playing a part in the July 2020 Twitter attack that saw the accounts of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, and former President Barack Obama hijacked by an unidentified crew. The 2020 Twitter attack happened when blue ticks still meant "Verified account" and was accomplished using social engineering just as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to gain traction.