Internet, mobile services disrupted in major cities, including Karachi, Islamabad

Communication services across Pakistan are hit by significant disruptions as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gears up for its much-anticipated “do-or-die” protest in Islamabad. Major cities like Karachi, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi have reported interruptions in mobile internet and other services, causing Read More …

Elon Musk to British MPs: I’ll summon you, actually

Elon Musk is beefing with British politicians again — and they’re not impressed. The X owner and Donald Trump ally brushed off a call from the House of Commons’ science and technology committee to answer questions on his role in Read More …

London Fire Brigade block almost 340,000 cyber attacks

The London Fire Brigade, the fire and rescue service for the UK’s capital, has been targeted by nearly 340,000 cyber-attacks over the past year. The data was collected under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), and analysed by the Parliament Read More …

UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing plant fined £333K for infosec blunders

The outfit that runs Britain’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing and decommissioning site has been fined £332,500 ($440,000) by the nation’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for its shoddy cybersecurity practices between 2019 and 2023. Sellafield, located in Cumbria, England, manages Read More …

Lebanon: Nine killed, 300 wounded in a new wave of explosions across the country

At least nine people have been killed and 300 were wounded in Lebanon in a new wave of blasts related to communication devices, the Health Ministry has said, a day after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah detonated across the Read More …

Nine killed, 2,750 wounded across Lebanon as Hezbollah pagers explode

At least nine people were killed and about 2,750 were wounded by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon, the country’s health minister has said. Firass Abiad said that an eight-year-old girl was among those killed and that more than 200 people Read More …

Facebook, X rush to delete Trump attacker Ryan Wesley Routh from social media

Social media companies including Meta’s Facebook and Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) are rushing to delete the pages associated with Ryan Wesley Routh from their platforms. While X has removed Routh’s profile from its platform, Facebook has removed all the Read More …

Victoria: Simmering anger from firies over cyber attack details

Two years on from a cyber attack firefighters say their systems are not fully restored and they still do not know if their information was leaked. Victoria’s fire service says it continues to update the workforce about a cyber attack, Read More …

Transport for London dealing with ‘ongoing cyber security incident’

Transport for London (TfL) is dealing with whats it calls an “ongoing cyber security incident”. The organisation, which is responsible for most of London’s transport network, has not shared specific details of the incident but it confirmed there is currently Read More …

Chennai bomb threat mails: Serious setback for police as Microsoft refuses to share vital information

Chennai cybercrime police has faced a serious setback in its investigations into the more than three dozen hoax bomb emails sent to schools, colleges, and the airport, ToI reported on August 30. Microsoft has refused to share crucial information regarding Read More …