Security News

Hacker Who Tried to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 Sentenced in London
2019-12-21 07:39

A 22-year-old man who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays ransom has pleaded guilty in London for trying to...

London's Met Police splash the cash on e-learning 'cyber' training for 4k staffers
2019-12-17 09:16

Getting tooled up for future crimes The Metropolitan Police Service dispatched more than 4,000 staff to attend so-called "cyber" training courses over the past two years.…

Challenge yourself and level up your IT security skills at this SANS London training event
2019-12-02 06:02

Arm yourself with the latest cybersecurity know-how Promo As more and more organisations move to new technologies, data thieves constantly try to find ingenious new ways of penetrating even the...

euNetworks builds critical internet infrastructure linking Dublin to London and Lowestoft
2019-11-05 03:00

euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, announced that it has undertaken a strategic investment, building critical internet infrastructure linking Dublin to London and...

NS1 expands operations in EMEA with new regional headquarters in London
2019-10-30 00:00

NS1, a leader in next generation DNS and application traffic management solutions, announced that it has expanded its operations into EMEA with a new regional headquarters in London. This follows...

From PowerShell to auditing: Expand your cybersecurity know-how at SANS London 2019
2019-09-13 06:00

Gain the skills you need to fend off miscreants this October in the UK capital Promo The internet is full of powerful, fast-changing hacking tools and malicious actors who know how to use them....

Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral
2019-08-19 08:11

Bill approaching £9m compared to £4.1m for the system in 2016 Concerns have been raised over a key supplier of an e-counting system for the London Mayoral elections in 2020.…

Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after miscreants enter customers' accounts
2019-08-08 11:38

Public sector bods blame users recycling logins Exclusive Transport for London's Oyster travel smartcard system has been accessed by miscreants using customer credentials, The Reg can reveal, as...

London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself
2019-07-11 12:48

And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has...

London Gallery Chief Quits After Israel Spyware Report
2019-06-18 16:14

The head of London's Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned on Tuesday following a newspaper report about her links to a controversial Israeli spyware firm. The board of trustees of the...