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Scotland Yard Twitter and Emails Hacked
2019-07-20 14:19

London's Metropolitan Police apologised Saturday after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages. read more

Capita bags £13.2m Police Scotland deal for crime-snooping tech
2019-04-04 15:25

Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6 Outsourcing badass Capita has gulped down a tasty £13.2m morsel dished out by the Scottish Police Authority: namely, the deal for Police...

Scotland's Arran Brewery Slammed by Dharma Bip Ransomware
2018-09-21 11:18

Ransomware Crypto-Locked via Domain Controller, Complicating RestorationScotland's Arran Brewery fell victim to a Dharma Bip ransomware attack that infected its Windows domain controller and...

WannaCry Probe: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland React
2017-10-31 17:18

Ransomware Hit NHS Scotland Hard; Northern Ireland and Wales Escaped InfectionsThe United Kingdom might be greater than the sum of its parts. But when it came to the WannaCry outbreak, some parts...

Hackers targeting users of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Santander (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 11:15

19,000 malicious emails have been sent in three days from spam servers worldwide, inviting users to download an archive containing a malicious .exe file. Bitdefender warns that the file acts as a d...

FBI threaten to step in on Met's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's empire in case Scotland Yard 'drops the ball'
2012-03-20 08:07

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116633/Phone-hacking-FBI-threaten-step-investigation-Rupert-Murdochs-empire.html By Daily Mail Reporter 18 March 2012

Hunted hackers spy on FBI, Scotland Yard
2012-02-06 07:11

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/5/hunted-hackers-spy-fbi-scotland-yard/ By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times February 5, 2012

Phone hacking: serving female Scotland Yard officer, 52, held on corruption claims
2011-12-27 11:40

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8969865/Phone-hacking-serving-female-Scotland-Yard-officer-52-held-on-corruption-claims.html By Andrew Hough, and Mark Hughes The Telegraph 21 Dec 2011