Security News

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...

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers
2018-09-20 00:10

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu The UK's privacy watchdog wants to fine Equifax £500,000 ($660,000) after hackers siphoned off 15 million Brits' info from its databases.…

Brit armed forces still don't have enough techies, thunder MPs
2018-09-12 08:14

Why aren't more people lining up to fight with a mouse, keyboard and gun? Parliament’s influential Public Accounts (PAC) Committee reckons UK Armed Forces need to recruit more digitally able folk...

Brit teen pleads guilty to Minecraft-linked bomb and airline hoaxes
2018-09-05 09:45

Twitter account using 19-year-old's online alias also taunted law enforcement A British teenager has pleaded guilty in court to making hoax bomb threats to schools and airports while posing online...

Criminals a bit less interested in nicking Brits' identities this year
2018-08-15 08:41

ID fraud drops to four-year low New figures reveal UK identity fraud dropped during the first six months of 2018 to reach a four-year low.…

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto
2018-07-19 18:35

Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Efforts by British boffins to thwart Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s have been declassified, providing fascinating...

Opened archive shows how the Brits easily cracked Russian codes
2018-07-19 18:35

Crack my two-time baby Work by the British against Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s was declassified this week, providing fascinating insights into a previously obscure part of...

Brit tech forges alliance to improve cyber security as MPs moan over 'acute scarcity' of experts
2018-07-19 15:41

We're even short 'moderately specialist' types ... A cross-sector alliance incorporating leading UK organisations has been created in response to government plans to develop a national...

Brit watchdog fines child sex abuse inquiry £200k over mass email blunder
2018-07-18 14:15

Breach identified potential victims taking part in probe The UK's data watchdog today issued the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) a £200,000 penalty after it sent a bulk email...