Security News

Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices
2019-03-28 12:44

HCSEC pulls no technical punches in annual report Britain's Huawei oversight board has said the Chinese company is a threat to British national security after all – and some existing mobile...

Brit Police Federation cops to ransomware attack on HQ systems
2019-03-21 15:22

Sort-of union for bobbies has triggered criminal investigation The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), a sort-of trade union for police workers, has been battling to contain a...

China's tech giants are a security threat to the UK, says Brit spy bigwig
2019-02-25 19:08

Times are strange when spies talk about infosec and economics colliding The world must "understand the opportunities and threats from China's technological offer", GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming...

Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soaps team up for 'cyber' episode
2019-02-15 16:16

WannaCry? You will do BBC "sister" medical drama shows Holby City and the venerable Casualty from which it sprang have announced that they are teaming up for a two-part "cyberattack special". NHS...

US man and Brit teen convict indicted over school bomb threat spree
2019-02-14 13:50

Roses are ... A 20-year-old American man who allegedly used the Twitter handle @WantedByFeds has been charged with DDoSing, sending bomb threats and more along with a British teenager who is...

The Iceman cometh, his smartwatch told the cops: Hitman jailed after gizmo links him to Brit gangland slayings
2019-01-19 08:01

Killer jailed for life after fitness kit data tips off plod Avid runner and hitman Mark Fellows was this week found guilty of murder after being grassed up by his Garmin watch.…

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble opposition jailed
2019-01-14 06:56

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A 30 year-old man from Surrey has been given 32 months in jail after admitting to a series of DDoS attacks on an African telco.…

Brit bomb hoax teen who fantasised about being a notorious hacker cops 3 years in jail
2018-12-07 16:30

So much for the Apophis Squad's Twitter boasts A teenage bomb hoaxer from Watford who taunted the UK's National Crime Agency on Twitter while pretending to be a hacker crew called Apophis Squad...

Brits' DNA data sent to military base after 'foreign' hack attacks – report
2018-12-06 09:07

100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair An ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits has experienced such sustained hack attacks that officials have had to shift the data to a...

Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ
2018-10-26 09:10

State investigation finds non-Snowden proof of UK badness - local report GCHQ’s rumoured hacking operation against Belgacom came back into the spotlight yesterday after a local newspaper revealed...