Since 2019, Facebook has been talking about adding end-to-end encryption to all its messaging services. It appears that the government of the United Kingdom would prefer that these plans go no further.
Privacy advocate groups allege that UK Test and Trace rushed the process and did not conduct the necessary data protection impact assessment that the GDPR requires for collection of personal data on this sort of scale.
U.K. government is starting cyber security reviews on Huawei amid U.S. trade sanctions to measure its potential for espionage using 5G infrastructure as a backdoor.
Massive UK Electoral Commission data breach leaked voter data of 40 million individuals who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The electoral body said it first detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022 and discovered that threat actors had accessed the systems 14 months prior.
UK water supplier, South Staffordshire PLC, suffered a Clop ransomware attack during one of the country’s worst droughts, with the gang mistakenly identifying another water utility as the victim.
Ukraine argues that Russian cyber attacks that target civilians via infrastructure impacts are coordinated with kinetic military attacks, and should be classified as war crimes.
Russia's current conflict with Ukraine is so far playing out with cyber attacks rather than physical warfare. A series of defacement attacks on government websites appears to be the opening salvo.
A cyber attack that disrupted international satellite internet and TV provider Viasat is being investigated by a tandem of global intelligence services, with Russia as the lead suspect.
Ukraine warns of Russian plans for massive cyber attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure to slow down the counteroffensive and those of Kyiv's allies in retaliation for support.
Ukrainian hackers suspected of hijacking 100 million Instagram accounts for sale were arrested and charged with disrupting information systems, which carries 15 years in prison.
