Security News

UK's Sellafield nuke waste processing plant fined £333K for infosec blunders
2024-10-05 06:07

Radioactive hazards and cyber failings ... what could possibly go wrong? The outfit that runs Britain's Sellafield nuclear waste processing and decommissioning site has been fined £332,500...

UK nuclear site Sellafield fined $440,000 for cybersecurity shortfalls
2024-10-04 12:57

Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive...

One-Third of UK Teachers Lack Cybersecurity Training, While 34% Experience Security Incidents
2024-10-03 15:40

A third of U.K. teachers have not received cyber security training this year, and only two-thirds of those that did deemed it useful, according to a government poll.

Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations
2024-09-26 10:29

See it, say it… not sorted just yet as network access remains offline A cybersecurity incident is being probed at Network Rail, the UK non-departmental public body responsible for repairing and...

UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'
2024-09-26 08:31

Access to account info needed to tackle benefit fraud, latest bill claims Privacy campaigners are criticizing UK proposals to force banks to share data from the accounts of government benefit...

‘Titanic Mindset’: Just 54% of UK IT Pros Confident in Data Recovery
2024-09-25 18:07

IT pros at U.K. companies are not regularly testing their data recovery processes, largely due to a lack of support from higher-ups.

#UK
Clickbaity or genius? 'BF cheated on you' QR codes pop up across UK
2024-09-20 14:10

A new wave of QR codes has popped up across UK claiming to share a video of a boyfriend who "cheated" on a girl named Emily last night. Clickbaity or genius? [...]

UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group
2024-09-19 12:16

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed...

UK arrests teen linked to Transport for London cyber attack
2024-09-12 16:36

U.K.'s National Crime Agency says it arrested a 17-year-old teenager who is suspected of being connected to the cyberattack on Transport for London, the city's public transportation agency. [...]

Cyber crooks shut down UK, US schools, thousands of kids affected
2024-09-11 22:43

No class: Black Suit ransomware gang boasts of 200GB haul from one raid Cybercriminals closed some schools in America and Britain this week, preventing kindergarteners in Washington state from...