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UK Government Reportedly Demands Access to Encrypted iCloud Files Worldwide
2025-02-07 22:13

As reported by The Washington Post, Apple received notice of a possible request in March 2024, but the official ask occurred in January 2025.

UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
2025-02-07 17:03

Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a...

Cyber Attack Severity Rating System Established in UK
2025-02-07 15:16

The U.K.’s new cyberattack rating system ranks incidents from 1 to 5, but experts warn businesses must go beyond awareness and strengthen their defences.

UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks
2025-02-07 11:47

Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders A world-first organization assembled to categorize the severity of cybersecurity...

UK Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for Companies Developing AI
2025-02-04 21:28

The Cyber Code of Practice applies to developers, system operators, and organisations that create, deploy, or manage AI systems.

Casio UK site compromised, equipped with web skimmer
2025-02-04 11:19

Japanese electronics maker Casio has had its UK website injected with a web skimmer that collected buyers’ personal and payment card information, Jscrambler has discovered. The company says that...

UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young
2025-02-04 09:30

Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog The UK's government spending watchdog has called on the current administration...

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Casio UK online store hacked to steal customer credit cards
2025-02-03 18:51

Casio UK's e-shop at casio.co.uk was hacked to include malicious scripts that stole credit card and customer information between January 14 and 24, 2025. [...]

Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
2025-01-30 12:08

Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of...

Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like progress to shore up IT defenses
2025-01-29 07:24

Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new...