Security News

A UK business will spend more than £1m recovering from a data breach (Help Net Security)
2017-07-17 15:04

A UK business would have to spend £1.1m on average to recover from a breach – more than the global average of £1m. An NTT Security study of 1,350 non-IT business decision makers across 11...

UK executives badly informed about where data is stored compared to other countries (Help Net Security)
2017-07-10 15:00

When it comes to data compliance matters, one in five business decision makers within the UK admit they do not know which compliance regulations their company is subject to, while a worrying...

UK Audit Office Says More Effort Needed to Combat Online Fraud (Security Week)
2017-07-03 11:37

UK's National Audit Office Says Online Fraud Needs to be Treated More Seriously by Government read more

UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service (The Hackers News)
2017-07-03 11:37

A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world's leading...

UK Snoopers' Charter to be Challenged in High Court (Security Week)
2017-06-30 16:39

Human rights group Liberty was today granted permission by the UK High Court to challenge part of the UK government's mass surveillance Investigatory Powers Act (IPA). The IPA, nicknamed the...

UK's Metropolitan Police Still Using 10,000 Windows XP Computers (Security Week)
2017-06-28 14:56

Legacy Windows XP systems used by public authorities in the UK remains a concern. The WannaCry outbreak last month followed by the current 'NotPetya' outbreak -- both using a vulnerability patched...

UK Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Up to 90 MPs' E-mail Accounts Hacked (The Hackers News)
2017-06-26 04:15

A cyber attack has hit the email system of UK Houses of Parliament on Friday morning that breached at least 90 emails accounts protected by weak passwords belonging to MPs, lawmakers, and other...

UK Parliament Cuts Email Access After Cyberattack (Security Week)
2017-06-24 23:58

Britain's parliament shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday following a cyberattack. Parliamentary authorities described the attack as "sustained and determined", in an email...

Configuration Error Embarrasses UK's Cyber Essentials (Security Week)
2017-06-22 22:52

The UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered an embarrassing incident; but one that can hardly be called a breach and certainly not a cyber-attack. A configuration error in the...