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Digital identity wallets and, our favorite, facial age estimation, where the features of a user's face are analyzed to estimate the user's age. The idea of age verification was floated years before and has returned as part of the Online Safety Bill.
The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years. The report, appearing in The Guardian, claimed that the controversial complex was hacked by "Cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China," with the infection detected in 2015 but perhaps present before that year.
The UK government plans to introduce new legislation to ban SIM farms, which it views as a widely abused means for carrying out cyber fraud. SIM farms are defined as devices that can hold four or more SIM cards while having the ability to make phone calls and send texts.
The attack started with compromising a media outlet's website to embed malicious scripts into an article, allowing for a 'watering hole' attack. State-backed North Korean hacking operations consistently rely on supply chain attacks and the exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities as part of their cyber warfare tactics.
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.