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Sustainable aviation fuels made from sources other than fossil fuels have the potential to reduce emissions by up to 80 percent, UK researchers have found. Boffins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the University of Manchester testing various blends of traditional jet fuel and SAF said preliminary data shows that airline travel might not such a guilty trip over pollution due to more efficient engine controls.
British Airways, BBC and Boots have all been served an ultimatum after they were hit with a supply-chain attack by the ransomware group Clop. In February 2023, Clop claimed responsibility for a supply-chain attack that affected more than 130 organizations, including data belonging to CHS Healthcare patients.
British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app. Instead, payroll services provider Zellis on Monday admitted its MOVEit installation had been exploited, and as a result "a small number of our customers" - including the aforementioned British trio - had their information stolen.
British retailer WH Smith has suffered a data breach that exposed information belonging to current and former employees. "WH Smith PLC has been the target of a cyber security incident which has resulted in illegal access to some company data, including current and former employee data," reads the company's cybersecurity notice filed with London's Stock Exchange.
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre on Thursday warned of spear-phishing attacks mounted by Russian and Iranian state-sponsored actors for information-gathering operations. The activity is typical of spear-phishing campaigns, where the threat actors send messages tailored to the targets, while also taking enough time to research their interests and identify their social and professional circles.
Nice. They went after vulnerable people and those over 60 who'd registered with Telephone Preference Service Britain's data watchdog has slapped financial penalties totaling £435,000 (c $529,000)...
The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre, the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. "These activities cover any internet-accessible system that is hosted within the UK and vulnerabilities that are common or particularly important due to their high impact," the agency said.
A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and one count of money laundering conspiracy.
Two notorious characters from the British security services have published a paper that once again suggests breaking end-to-end encryption would be a good thing for society. Nearly four years ago Ian Levy, technical director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, along with technical director for cryptanalysis at the British spy agency GCHQ Crispin Robinson, published a paper arguing for "Virtual crocodile clips" on encrypted communications that could be used to keep us all safe from harm.
The YouTube takeover replaced the legit account with regalia that faked that used by an investment management firm and filled with more crypto boosterism, namely a video that cut an old chat between Elon Musk and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey into a new and misleading narrative. We are aware of a breach of the Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts and an investigation is underway.