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Privacy and data protection

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Internet Archive web historians target of hacktivist cyber attack

  The Internet Archive nonprofit digital library and Wayback Machine operator has been attacked by pro-Palestinian hacktivists

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  UK and US pledge closer working on children’s online safety

  In their first agreement on the subject of children’s online safety, the UK and US governments have said they will create a new working group to boost cooperation

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Australia bolsters cyber defences with security bill

  Legislation tackles IoT security and establishes a Cyber Incident Review Board to bolster Australia’s cyber resilience

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  MoneyGram customer data breached in attack

  MoneyGram confirms that customer data has been stolen in an incident that appears to have started with a social engineering attack on its IT helpdesk staff

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Secureworks: Ransomware takedowns didn’t put off cyber criminals

  The number of active cyber criminal ransomware gangs has surged by almost a third in the space of 12 months, according to the latest intelligence from Secureworks

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025

  The UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses

• October 07, 2024 07 Oct'24

  IBM: Data breach cost in ASEAN hits new high

  The average cost of a data breach in ASEAN grew by 7% from last year, as organisations grapple with increasingly distributed IT environments and complex security systems

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  NCSC celebrates eight years as Horne blows in

  Outgoing NCSC interim leader Felicity Oswald shares her thoughts on the body’s work over the past eight years as she hands over the reins to incoming CEO Richard Horne

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Detective wrongly claimed journalist’s solicitor attempted to buy gun, surveillance tribunal hears

  Darren Ellis, who led a surveillance operation against journalists who exposed police failures, wrongly accused a solicitor of attempting to buy arms

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Ex-PSNI officer seeking legal advice over comments made at Investigatory Powers Tribunal

   Ex PSNI officer ‘deeply angered’ by comments made by a former detective at a tribunal investigating allegations of unlawful surveillance against journalists

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Microsoft files lawsuit to seize domains used by Russian spooks

  Microsoft has been given permission to seize multiple domains used by the Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard as part of a coordinated disruption effort undertaken ahead of the US elections

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Detective reported journalist’s lawyers to regulator in ‘unlawful’ PSNI surveillance case

  Former Durham detective Darren Ellis told the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that he had concerns about lawyers acting for journalists placed under surveillance by Northern Irish police

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale

  Survey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  UK on high alert over Iranian spear phishing attacks, says NCSC

  The NCSC and counterpart agencies in the US have issued a warning over enhanced Iranian spear phishing activity targeting politicians, journalists, activists and others with an interest in Middle Eastern affairs

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI

  Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Home Office eVisa scheme is ‘broken’, says Open Rights Group

  Digital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the 'hostile environment' around immigration status

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Medtech startup brings Oracle AI to bear on cancer drug research

  Learn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its cutting-edge AI features are bringing new benefits to cancer care by helping doctors identify better treatment options

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown

  Law enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation

  CRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration

• September 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  UN-backed cyber security report highlights global shortfalls in preparedness

  In the three years since the UN-backed cyber security report was published, countries have been making a concerted effort to protect themselves from cyber threats, but there’s more to do

• September 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  Cyber workforce must almost double to meet global talent need

  Research from ISC2 finds global cyber workforce needs additional 4.8 million people to fully secure businesses

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  Lord introduces bill to regulate public sector AI and automation

  A private members’ bill seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated technologies throughout the public sector has been brought to Parliament

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  Data sharing for immigration raids ferments hostility to migrants

  Data sharing between public and private bodies for the purposes of carrying out immigration raids helps to prop up the UK’s hostile environment by instilling an atmosphere of fear and deterring migrants from accessing public services

• September 06, 2024 06 Sep'24

  Longstanding Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to step down

  Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson is to leave the AI cyber company she helped build with Mike Lynch after more than a decade, following its acquisition by a private equity firm

• September 05, 2024 05 Sep'24

  Canadian arrested by France after cooperating with US on Sky ECC cryptophone investigation

  Thomas Herdman, who faces charges in France over his involvement in distributing Sky ECC encrypted phones, was arrested by French police despite agreeing to cooperate with US law enforcement

• September 04, 2024 04 Sep'24

  Fraud and scam complaints hit highest ever level in UK

  The Financial Ombudsman Service says it recorded almost 9,000 complaints about fraud and scams from April to June, the most ever recorded

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Chief data officers highlight data integrity woes

  In a report from the company co-founded by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, CDOs discuss the challenges of artificial intelligence and using increasing amounts of personal data

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Transport for London hit by cyber attack

  London’s transport network provider TfL experiences cyber security incident, but reassures customers there is no impact on services

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Telegram CEO Pavel Durov under formal investigation, released on bail

  European Commission confirms it has powers to place Telegram under ‘direct supervision’ if it meets the threshold for regulation under the Digital Services Act

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Global cyber spend to rise 15% in 2025, pushed along by AI

  Security spending will increase at pace in 2025, with artificial intelligence, cloud and consultancy services all pushing outlay to new highs, according to Gartner

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup

  University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Telegram founder Pavel Durov questioned over cyber crime charges

  Billionaire founder of Telegram accused of failing to co-operate with law enforcement requests for lawful interception

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  Pakistani national arrested over Southport ‘cyber terrorism’

  Authorities in Pakistan have arrested a man on suspicion of cyber terrorism over his role in the spread of online misinformation in the wake of the Southport knife attack

• August 20, 2024 20 Aug'24

  ICO launches privacy notice tool for SMEs

  ICO tool designed to make it easier for small businesses and sole traders operating online to create bespoke data privacy notices for compliance purposes

• August 20, 2024 20 Aug'24

  Helsinki braced for elevated cyber attacks

  The City of Helsinki is increasing its collaboration with cyber security and crime investigators following a major attack on its systems

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Popular Microsoft apps for Mac at risk of code injection attacks

  Researchers at Cisco Talos turn up evidence suggesting that Microsoft apps running on the Apple macOS operating system are not as secure as they seem

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  Thousands of NetSuite customers accidentally exposing their data

  Misconfigured permissions across live websites are leaving thousands of NetSuite users open to having their valuable customer data stolen, researchers say

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  Campaigners criticise Starmer post-riot public surveillance plans

  A UK government programme to expand police facial recognition and information sharing after racist riots is attracting criticism from campaigners for exploiting the far-right unrest to generally crack down on protest and increase surveillance

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Automated police tech contributes to UK structural racism problem

  Civil society groups say automated policing technologies are helping to fuel the disparities that people of colour face across the criminal justice sector, as part of wider warning about the UK’s lack of progress in dealing with systemic racism

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals deploys patient records and data sharing on Azure

  In-house patient records system has been migrated to the Microsoft public cloud, opening up the potential for greater data sharing

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms

  NIST has launched the first three quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and as the threat of quantum-enabled cyber attacks grows greater, organisations are encouraged to adopt them as soon as they can

• August 09, 2024 09 Aug'24

  The Security Interviews: Google’s take on confidential computing

  We speak to Google’s Nelly Porter about the company’s approach to keeping data as safe as possible on Google Cloud

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  Russia’s luxury car phish continues to prove effective

  Government organisations and other bodies operating in Ukraine continue to be targeted by a relatively unsophisticated phishing campaign that has proven so effective for Russia’s cyber spooks that there are now multiple agencies involved

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  Police hunt scammers after takedown of Russian Coms fraud platform

  The National Crime Agency has arrested four people after taking down a phone number spoofing platform used by criminals to defraud hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with more arrests to follow

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  Banks, telcos call for more data sharing to fight fraud

  A Which?-led coalition of banks and telecoms operators is calling on the UK's new government to take the lead on enabling data sharing to help fight digital fraud

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Mayor launches London Privacy Register for smart city information

  To increase transparency around and trust in London’s smart city technology deployments, the London Privacy Register aims to provide the public with more information about the systems they encounter in their day-to-day lives

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  Basic failures led to hack of Electoral Commission data on 40 million people

  UK government identifies Chinese state-linked hackers as likely to have been behind attack on the Electoral Commission

• July 29, 2024 29 Jul'24

  WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce

  A digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society

  A coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42

  Mimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms