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• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Microsoft identifies boardroom cyber awareness as a top priority

  Digital security report urges IT leaders to convince company boards that cyber security is a board-level problem

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Securing the AI era: Huawei’s cyber security strategy for the GCC

  At Gitex 2025, Sultan Mahmood, chief security officer for Huawei Gulf North, outlined how the company supports GCC digital sovereignty, AI security, and enterprise cyber resilience

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  ICO fines Capita £14m after ransomware caused major data breach

  Outsourcing giant hit with £14m fine over 2023 cyber attack, but costs could rise as legal actions continue

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes

  The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta

  Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police ordered to give reasons in closed court for seizing phone of UK Hamas lawyer

  London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing and copying the contents of a phone belonging to a UK lawyer who represented Hamas, but refuses an injunction to prevent police from reviewing the phone until after judicial review

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage

  Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland has commissioned a senior lawyer to report back on whether there was any misconduct by police officers following the McCullough Review into the surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption

  A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  US government shutdown stalls cyber intel sharing

  A key US law covering cyber security intelligence sharing has expired without an extension or replacement amid a total shutdown of the federal government, putting global security collaboration at risk.

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  EU Chat Control plans pose ‘existential catastrophic risk’ to encryption, says Signal

  As EU member states prepare to vote on plans to mandate tech companies to introduce technology to scan messages before they are encrypted, Signal warns that Chat Control will create new security risks

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  MPs press outsourcer TCS over Jaguar cyber attack

  The government’s cross-bench Business and Trade Committee has written to Tata Consultancy Services seeking answers over possible links to cyber attacks on Jaguar Land Rover, Marks and Spencer, and Co-op

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing

  Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Over half of India-based companies suffer security breaches

  Business supply chains, which include Indian companies, are at risk of attack as more than half of suppliers were breached last year

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight

  Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same

  At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Netherlands establishes cyber resilience network to strengthen public-private digital defence

  Network will connect organisations in a cyber crime defence initiative that goes way beyond information sharing

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  McCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no ‘systemic’ surveillance of journalists

  A review by Angus McCullough KC reveals that Northern Ireland police failed to comply with the law but that there was no ‘widespread and systemic’ surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs

• September 23, 2025 23 Sep'25

  ‘Our worst day’: The untold story of the Electoral Commission cyber attack

  As head of digital at The Electoral Commission, Andrew Simpson’s mettle was tested when threat actors gained access to the regulator’s email systems and accessed sensitive voter data. Three years on, he tells his story to Computer Weekly

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience

  A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

  A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy

  Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop

  A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Arqit to support NCSC’s post-quantum cryptography pilot

  Quantum specialist Arqit will provide specialised post-quantum migration planning services to organisations preparing to address the imminent risks to traditional cryptography

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit preview: Digital sovereignty in the public cloud

  We look at how IT leaders need to balance data access, data residency and data sovereignty

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages

  Law enforcement and police experts meet on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images amid growing opposition from security experts

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  UK contactless card payment limits could be unlimited

  The UK Financial Conduct Authority says contactless payment technology and fraud protections have advanced enough for firms to adjust the limit

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Northern Ireland police kept inspectors in dark over surveillance of journalists

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland failed to inform the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office about surveillance operations against journalists during annual inspections

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  US politicians ponder Wimwig cyber intel sharing law

  US cyber data sharing legislation is set to replace an Obama-era law, but time is running out to get it over the line, with global ramifications for the security industry, and intelligence and law enforcement communities

• September 04, 2025 04 Sep'25

  UK sets out plans for AI assurance leadership

  Labour wants the UK to become the world leader in artificial intelligence assurance

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  European court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework data-sharing agreement

  EU General Court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework, bringing certainty to businesses that exchange data with the US – for now. An appeal may be in the offing

• August 31, 2025 31 Aug'25

  Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore

  Move allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions

• August 29, 2025 29 Aug'25

  Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm

  A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  UK cyber security centre helps expose China-based cyber campaign

  GCHQ cyber security centre and its international partners release details of malicious cyber activity linked to Chinese businesses

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Scale of MoD Afghan data breaches widens dramatically

  Many more data breaches at the MoD's Arap programme to relocate at-risk Afghan citizens to Britain have emerged following an FoI request by BBC journalists

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Microsoft starts including PQC algorithms in cyber foundations

  Microsoft updates on its post-quantum cyber strategy as it continues integrating quantum-safe algorithms into some of the core foundations underpinning its products and services

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management

  Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  ISACA launches AI security management certification

  ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘backdoor’ demands against Apple

  US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘backdoor’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advanced encryption services to UK users

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training

  The Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

  L’Oréal UK and Ireland will work with law enforcement, cyber educators and students, and other large organisations to help thousands of small salons across the UK improve their cyber resilience practice

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  UK cyber leaders feel impact of Trump cutbacks

  The ripple effects of US cyber security cutbacks have reached this side of the Atlantic, according to a report

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  US trade body calls on Washington to cut cyber red tape

  The US Information Technology Industry Council has called on the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director to cut burdensome regulations in areas such as AI and incident reporting, and to do more to build a unified security regime

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Norway fixing Big Bang e-health botch with fintech security

  Experts call for Europe’s health sector to protect medical APIs with security originated from UK open banking as officials take urgent measures against unprecedented attacks

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  McCullough Review into PSNI spying on journalists and lawyers delayed

  Angus McCullough KC is to present findings of an independent review of police spying on phone data of lawyers, journalists and NGOs in Northern Ireland in October  

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?

  Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

  Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Companies House ID verification to start in November 2025

  Companies House plans to start vetting director identities from mid-November, but its reliance on the troubled One Login digital identity service may be cause for concern

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework

  Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles

• August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

  Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD

  The UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records