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Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history

Sweeping sanctions and condemnation follow op that could have left half a million without power in the depths of winter

And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field

Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized

CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team

Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship

Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex

150 new organizations inducted to cyber’s Soho House, including the first outside the US

Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots

Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence

MoD says StormBreaker will plug gap until homegrown SPEAR 3 integration lands

Firefox maker says the tools are basic security infrastructure, not teenage contraband

UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time

Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.…

Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'

Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.…