Security News

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...

That'll learn ya! Data watchdog spanks two Brit phone botherers
2018-06-28 11:15

Our Vault Ltd fined £70k and Horizon Windows scolded over unsolicited marketing calls Two nuisance callers were today named and shamed – only one was fined – by the UK's data watchdog for illegal...

Strip Capita of defence IT contract unless things improve – Brit MPs
2018-06-18 14:49

Committee calls for more public spending – but not with outsourcer A Parliamentary committee has called for Capita to be stripped of its military recruiting IT contract unless its performance...