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A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday. "We are experiencing a service outage which has impacted a portion of the services we deliver to some of our clients. The outage was caused by a cyber-incident," the UK IT services provider said in a statement published on Friday.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is getting tough on website design, insisting that opting out of cookies must be as simple as opting in. At question are advertising cookies, where users should be able to "Accept All" advertising cookies or reject them.
The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach - the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years. An email to customers, shared on social media by web security consultant and Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt, detailed that the breach exposing data of customers who made purchases between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020 was discovered on November 13.
Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual. The company says that the cyberattack impacted only customers who made purchases from the Samsung UK online store between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020.
Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual. The company says that the cyberattack impacted only customers who made purchases from the Samsung UK online store between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020.
The U.K.'s position as a financial services hub puts it ahead in enterprise-wide IT automation, says Red Hat. Red Hat's report, Thriving through change with enterprise-wide IT automation, surveyed 1,200 IT leaders in the aforementioned four countries about the role of automation in their businesses and the challenges they faced in adopting new technologies.
The latest warning to CNI operators of what the NCSC said is an enduring and significant threat comes after a year of serious assaults on critical services in the UK. Royal Mail International was the target of a serious attack by the LockBit group in January, and this was after a raid on software supplier Advanced forced the NHS to revert to pen and paper once again. The UK and its intelligence partners have also sought to bring attention to the cyber threat faced by allied CNI over the past year, including alerts covering Russia's cyber-espionage-enabling Snake malware and China's attacks on US organizations.
The UK government has set in train plans to introduce legislation requiring tech companies to let it know when they plan to introduce new security technologies and could potentially force them to disable when required. They could mean the Home Office get advance access to technical details of security measures employed by popular big tech platforms so it can access user data and monitor nefarious activity.
A "Debt management company" is itself facing a bill from Britain's data regulator for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to households that opted not to receive marketing junk mail. Misery loves company, and another entry in the ICO hall of shame this week is MCP Online, which is nursing a £55,000 penalty for making an unspecified number of "Unsolicited financial services calls about pensions," the ICO said.
Global leaders from 28 nations have gathered in the U.K. for an influential summit dedicated to AI regulation and safety. Day one of the AI Safety Summit culminated in the signing of the "Landmark" Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety, which commits 28 participating countries - including the U.K., U.S. and China - to jointly manage and mitigate risks from artificial intelligence while ensuring safe and responsible development and deployment.