Tag: UK

March 5, 2020

Members of Parliament, who attended the Westminster Hall Debate on the role of Huawei in 5G networks, were told that the government and UK businesses have asked the Chinese network equipment firm to fix engineering problems. In January, the government […]

October 30, 2019

The cybersecurity threatscape in the UK is extremely complex and sophisticated. It is no longer a question of whether a cyberattack will occur, but when; according to a recent Beaming report, UK businesses faced cyberattacks every 50 seconds in the […]

July 11, 2018

A year into an investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns, the U.K.’s privacy watchdog is hitting companies that shared data with political parties with sanctions including a criminal prosecution and a £500,000 (US$660,000) fine. The Information […]

December 23, 2016

Whatever the eventual fate of the British government’s shiny new Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) – derided as a ‘snooper’s charter’ by critics – yesterday will go down as one of its most difficult moments. In a carefully worded but hard-hitting […]

November 14, 2016

An Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation into WhatsApp’s decision to share customer data with Facebook has confirmed initial concerns that personal information is not being properly handled. The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said in an official company blog that […]

September 19, 2016

The news was announced, during the Billington CyberSecurity Summit held in Washington DC, by the GCHQ director general of cyber security Ciaran Martin. “The NCSC will be based in London and will open in October. Ciaran Martin, currently Director General Cyber at GCHQ […]

September 17, 2015

Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted an email #phishing #scam on Wednesday that targets #amazon‘s #uk users. The emails, purporting to be from Amazon #customer service, falsely state that a small number of accounts were breached last month. The scammers tell the […]

September 7, 2015

When #metro bank opened its doors five years ago, it was reportedly the first new #high street bank to launch in the #uk for over 150 years. It may have joined an old club, but now its #customers are at […]