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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.
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As the winter season kicks in, scammers are not missing the chance to target senior British residents with bogus "winter heating allowance" and "cost of living support" scam texts. [...]
ML, NLP Tools Collect More Personal Information Than Required, UK Regulator SaysArtificial intelligence tools currently used by organizations in the United Kingdom to screen job applicants pose privacy risks and are susceptible to biasness and accuracy issues, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found. The ICO focused on machine learning and natural language processing.
An ICO audit of AI recruitment tools found numerous data privacy issues that may lead to jobseekers being discriminated against and privacy compromised
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has released malvertising guidance for brands and their ad partners
CIISec report reveals the average wage for UK security professionals is now over £87,000
3 Countries Taking Different Approaches to Accountability and Victim CompensationGovernments globally are intensifying anti-scam measures, introducing new guidelines to banks, telecom providers and other key sectors to bolster security controls and mitigate fraud risks for consumers and businesses. Some new frameworks threaten to levy stiff penalties for non-compliance.
Regulator Tells Regulators to Enhance Third-Party Service SecurityBritish financial institutions must ensure by this spring that they could reasonably weather a third party tech outage on the scale of July's global meltdown of 8.5 million computers triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published an analysis of a Linux malware named "Pigmy Goat" created to backdoor Sophos XG firewall devices as part of recently disclosed attacks by Chinese threat actors. [...]
Several UK council websites are back online after being disrupted by Russian hacktivist DDoS attacks