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New reports have revealed five cyberattacks have targeted British drinking water facilities since January 2024 – a record number in any two year period. Reports of these incidents were obtained by The Record using Freedom of Information requests to the Read More …
A woman has been charged after around 100 patients had their medical records accessed in a data breach at NHS Lothian. The health board has written letters to patients affected by the breach, which they say was caused by one Read More …
Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users’ faces without consent to train its AI algorithms. Austria-based Noyb (None of Your Business) is targeting the US company and its executives, arguing that Read More …
The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cost an estimated £1.9bn and be the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history, according to researchers. Experts at the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) have analysed the continuing fallout from Read More …
The Ministry of Defence is investigating claims that Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents and published them on the dark web. The files hold details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Read More …
When the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recommends that organizations revisit pen and paper plans, it may sound retrograde. After all, modern cybersecurity strategies often focus on AI-enhanced threat detection, zero trust architecture, and real-time telemetry. But this latest Read More …
The UK’s data watchdog has fined outsourcing firm Capita £14m after the personal data of 6.6 million people was stolen in a cyber-attack. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Capita “failed to ensure the security of processing of personal data Read More …
Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested by police investigating a cyber-attack on a chain of nurseries in London. The Metropolitan Police say the pair were arrested at residential addresses in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail. Read More …
Renault has become the most recent victim of a cyber attack. Customers of the French firm and its sister brand Dacia have been warned that their personal data, including postal addresses and emails, has been stolen by hackers. In an Read More …
The U.K. government is still trying to gain access to encrypted iCloud data, according to the Financial Times, after British officials allegedly filed a new secret order demanding Apple build a backdoor. On Wednesday, the British newspaper reported that the Read More …
