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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has opened an official inquiry into the misuse of private email accounts at the Department of Health and Social Care. The investigation comes amid mounting allegations that senior officials within the department - including former health secretary Matt Hancock who resigned recently over his inability to follow lockdown rules - used private emails to discuss sensitive government business.
A British script kiddie who DDoS'd a Labour Party parliamentary candidate's website in the runup to the last general election has been banned from using the Tor browser. Bradley Niblock, formerly the operator of the UGLegion Twitter account, pleaded guilty to two Computer Misuse Act crimes after being tracked down by Cumbria Police.
Criminals infected the Salvation Army in the UK with ransomware and siphoned the organisation's data, The Register has learned. The Salvation Army refused to give any further information, such as the identity of the criminal attackers, or the volume and type of data accessed by the them.
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday, and listed the US first in overall ranking, followed by a tie for second place tie between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The index ranks nations using 82 questions developed by a panel of experts.
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union published its 2020 Global Cyber Security Index on Tuesday, and listed the US first in overall ranking, followed by a tie for second place tie between the UK and Saudi Arabia. The index ranks nations using 82 questions developed by a panel of experts.
The new UK Cyber Security Council has instigated its first two initiatives, under its mandate from the Government to develop the cyber security profession. The Council has invited the 16 members of the Cyber Security Alliance - the group of organisations commissioned by DCMS to set up the Council - to apply for a role in determining the terms of reference for two significant, new committees: a Professional Standards & Ethics Committee and a Qualifications & Careers Committee.
The Cabinet Office spaffed almost £300,000 on cybersecurity-related training for its staff in the last year - an eye-popping increase of almost 500 per cent on the year before. This is according to a Freedom of Information request by political think tank Parliament Street, which found the Cabinet Office lavished £274,142.
The UK's financial watchdog has fired a warning shot across the bow of Binance, and ordered it to place a notice on binance.com scaring off Brit crypto fans. This seems to have come about because Binance, which is ultimately based in the Cayman Islands, wanted to launch an exchange in the UK using its London-based affiliate Binance Markets Ltd. Since the start of the year, cryptocurrency firms in Britain have had to register with the nation's Financial Conduct Authority and meet its anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism-funding requirements.
A home improvement biz based in East Sussex is facing a fine of £130,000 for making upwards of 900,000 unsolicited marketing calls to individuals and businesses that had enrolled on the Telephone Preference Service. Colour Coat of St Leonards-on-Sea made almost 970,000 connected calls between 1 August 2019 and 31 March last year, the Information Commissioner's Office found, of which more than 452,000 were to folk or entities registered with TPS or the corporate equivalent.
Customers of the Three UK telco company are panicking as they receive a series of random phone calls due to an ongoing issue. Outbound calls from customers are being routed to random strangers.