“A security flaw accessible via Google’s UK motor insurance aggregator Google Compare has potentially exposed vast numbers of drivers to identity theft. The vulnerability, the existence of which has been verified by The Register, made it possible for comprehensive personal details –...
“ccording to a survey of 56 corporate and governmental organizations conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the average amount they paid for all the costs associated with cyberattacks was $8.9 million during the past year. That’s up 6% from the previous year’s study. And for the first...
“China Investment Corporation (CIC), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has bought a 10% stake in the firm that owns London’s Heathrow airport. Heathrow Airport Holdings’ other UK airports include Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow and Aberdeen.” Source:BBC News – C...
“Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest: all of them could be the source of valuable intelligence that the UK’s intelligence agencies want to know about – and now government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of usef...
“A hacker using the handle @0x00x00 has just leaked a load of data from police.uk which is the main police website for England and Wales http://www.police.uk/.” Source: Police.uk Hacked, Data and Accounts Leaked for #OpFreeAssange Original Source...
“MI5 is working to counter ‘astonishing’ levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry, the organisation’s chief has said. In his first public speech for two years, Jonathan Evans warned internet ‘vulnerabilities’ were being exploited by criminals as well as states. T...
“A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS television networks and Sonys film and TV studio, authorities said on Wednesday. Ryan Cleary, who is already jailed in the United Kingdo...
“The UK needs to defend itself against an electromagnetic pulse-based ‘E-bomb’ that could knock out all electronic systems, the defence secretary will say today. Philip Hammond will tell a security conference in London that traditional defences based on “infantry or jet planes” would n...