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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.
A cyberattack on Royal Mail, UK's largest mail delivery service, has been linked to the LockBit ransomware operation. [...]
The updates come from The Guardian's CEO Anna Bateson and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner
War in Ukraine is making firms more anxious
Don't go postal and call it a cyberattack because nobody knows (yet) what knocked out key system Royal Mail confirmed a "cyber incident" has disrupted its ability to send letters and packages abroad, and also caused some delays on post coming into the UK.…
The Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to "severe service disruption" caused by what it described as a "cyber incident." [...]
Call metadata can be ferreted out Boffins based in China and the UK have devised a telecom network attack that can expose call metadata during VoLTE/VoNR conversations.…
The NCSC’s new Funded Cyber Essentials Programme will support SMEs as well as charities
Threat actors abused an open redirect on the official website of the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to direct visitors to fake OnlyFans adult dating sites. [...]
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