Reports on cybersecurity incidents, policy, public services, privacy, advisories, and regional developments connected to the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to United Kingdom, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving United Kingdom's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
The UK’s ICO has ruled Serco Leisure’s use facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanning to monitor employee attendance is in breach of data protection law
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has produced new guidance for smaller firms on PBX attacks
The attack, which has been claimed by Anonymous Sudan, has been confirmed to have impacted IT services at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester
UK’s National Crime Agency has led an international operation to disrupt the Lockbit ransomware group