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Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider
A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years.
Governments should “police the content rather than the technology used to create it,” Matthew Feeney from the Centre for Policy Studies argued in a new paper
Confidential patient information found by member of the public A data protection gaffe affecting the UK's NHS is being pinned on a medical student who placed too much trust in their bin bags.…
Payments Regulator Says Banks Should Prioritize Customer Protection Over LossesThe U.K. Payments Systems Regulator has denied The Payment Association's request to delay the contentious APP fraud reimbursement plan by a year. The association, the largest community in payments, had warned that failing to delay the plan would permanently damage the payments industry.
The two jurisdictions will work together to investigate the credential-stuffing attack that put the personal data of millions at risk.
Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year's 23andMe data breach.…
Two individuals are believed to have used a homemade mobile antenna to send thousands of SMS phishing messages
The ICO and OPC have launched a joint investigation into an October 2023 breach at 23andMe
Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year's 23andMe data breach. [...]
Thousands of dodgy SMSes bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into an SMS-based phishing campaign using some kind of homebrew hardware.…
Thousands of dodgy SMS messages bypassed network filters in UK-first case, it is claimed British police have arrested two individuals following an investigation into a suspected illegal homebrew phone mast used in SMS-based phishing campaigns.…