Internal sources and documents seen by Guardian reporters indicate that advanced persistent threat (APT) hacker groups working for Russia and China have likely had sleeper malware spread throughout the UK nuclear site's IT systems since at least 2015.
A ransomware attack on KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands shut down 300 restaurants in the United Kingdom and leaked the company's corporate data.
UK Google users are set to lose the protections they had received from the GDPR given that the country has embarked on an exit from the EU, where the law is applicable.
The British Library has confirmed that the October cyber attack disrupted services and leaked employee's personal data listed for sale on the dark web by the Rhysida ransomware gang.
UK has launched a vulnerability scanning program that will monitor all of the country's internet devices for potential unpatched issues, in a bid to both bolster national security and help individual organizations protect themselves.
Democracy is at risk from companies like Facebook that behave like digital gangsters. And, in fact, there are many similarities between Facebook’s behavior and recent violations and the way that “traditional gangsters” act.
Tech companies and civic organizations signed an open letter to stop GCHQ proposal to insert government or law enforcement officials into encrypted chats.
A new data reform bill included in the 2022 Queen's Speech promises a "pro-growth" framework of greater benefit to both businesses and citizens of the UK. It could put an end to the data adequacy decision that allows personal data to continue flowing between it and the EU.
UK Home Secretary is offering grants of up to $117,000 to firms that can figure out how to bypass the end-to-end encryption used by the Facebook and WhatsApp messaging systems.
Google and Apple’s contact tracing app was supposed to put user privacy first. Each of the tech giants has blocked the most recent update from the NHS, citing privacy violations.