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British police are saying coronavirus-related fraud reports have spiked by 400 per cent over the past six weeks as the COVID-19 illness continues its inexorable march through humanity. Although absolute numbers of reports are low, perhaps kept that way because the public now knows Action Fraud is largely useless, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau said there were a total of 200 reports of coronavirus scams made to them since 1 February.
At an event run by think tank The Institute for Government last month, he was asked about proposals that could allow the sharing of medical and social care data across government bodies under the Digital Economy Act 2017. The Public Service Delivery Review Board has suggested that it will ask government to extend the Digital Economy Act to include the sharing of medical data across government, something primary legislation currently prevents.
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A pair of misconfigured cloud-hosted file silos have left thousands of peoples' sensitive info sitting on the open internet. The latest demonstration of this comes from eggheads at VPNmentor, who this week said they found two open AWS S3 buckets, one belonging to a UK consulting firm and another run by an adult webcam host.
It appears the UK banking system is playing a fiscal game of Top Trumps as both Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank followed yesterday's example set by Lloyds by not processing payments into customer accounts. Yorkshire Bank's customer service orifice on Twitter gave up responding publicly to users just before 10am, presumably to focus on the wave of customers bombarding the bank's news emitter.
They're not 'immune', they just have the 'power' to not be punished It’s perfectly legal for British spies to break the law, Britain’s secretive spy court has ruled – making a mockery of other...
High Court throws out Nathan Wyatt's extradition appeal A Briton once suspected of hacking Pippa Middleton's iCloud account – although he was cleared after a police probe in 2016 – now faces...
Russian-backed cell's Middle East campaign pretended to be of a Persian persuasion British and US spies have blamed Russian hacker group Turla for masquerading as Iranian hackers to launch recent...
Five nabbed over conspiracy to commit a public nuisance Five people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police for threatening to fly drones around London’s Heathrow airport this Friday to...