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The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking."On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking," the agency said, adding "He remains in police custody."
If you head to CyberThreat 22 this Autumn you can draw on the expertise of some of the world's most experienced practitioners. This year's event takes place from September 12 to 13, at the Park Plaza in Westminster, London, and is backed by two of the most influential organizations in cybersecurity - SANS Institute and the UK government's National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ. The organisers unabashedly describe Cyberthreat as the most technical cybersecurity event in the UK, but recognise that Cyber Defence is a team sport, that everyone is on a different journey and that every discovery, analytic achievement and breakthrough is backed by a personal story.
Eurostar is testing a new biometric facial recognition technology on passengers traveling from London's St Pancras International station to continental Europe. The system will involve two facial scans, one at the ticket gate to verify the ticket check and one at the UK Exit Checkpoint, to confirm that the passport information is valid.
Singapore and the UK signed three memorandums of understanding this week, hoping to strengthen digital connectivity between the two island nations. In a canned statement, Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information, Josephine Teo, said the agreement would "Further strengthen the links between Singapore and the UK in digital trade facilitation, digital identities and cybersecurity."
The insurer's "Cyber War and Cyber Operation Exclusion Clauses", published late last week, include an alarming line suggesting policies should not cover "Retaliatory cyber operations between any specified states" or cyber attacks that have "a major detrimental impact on the functioning of a state." Although the wordings in the four clauses are published as a suggestion for insurers in Lloyd's-underwritten policies and are not concrete rules, they provide a useful indicator for the direction of travel in the slow-moving cyber insurance world.
De Rose allegedly conspired with members of a gang known as The Community to defraud someone identified in court as "RM". He is currently contesting extradition to the US to stand trial on wire fraud, theft, and money laundering charges. De Rose's extradition hearing comes after the National Crime Agency arrested eight men aged between 18 and 26 back in February on suspicion of carrying out SIM-swap attacks targeted at US citizens.
A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems. The society is a property development firm that wants to build flats over a children's caged ball court in the south London borough, something Hutchinson "Vocally opposes," according to the local paper.
SANS Institute is coming to the UK capital with a line-up of top-notch cybersecurity courses, some of which offer the option of in-person training, and all of which promise to help you build practical skills you can apply immediately. If you're not quite ready to come eye to eye with your peers, here's more good news, most of the courses are also available Live Online as well.
Julian Assange will remain in a British prison for now after the US government won permission to appeal against a January court ruling that freed him from extradition to America. News of the appeal came as the US Department of Justice offered Assange a deal that would keep him out of the notoriously cruel US supermax prisons, according to The Times.
City of London Police is looking to crack down on cybercrime with the purchase of "Next-generation IT services" in the hopes it will beef up the systems supporting Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. Action Fraud - founded in 2006 - is the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.