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Hertfordshire Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages.

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"But when we look back through, the spiciest thing that we could find was Roslyn calling one senior person at the school a control freak, and that was the strongest remark we could find."

Well, that senior person sured proved Roslyn wrong!

Polish PM Tusk says rail track explosion was ‘sabotage’ Warsaw is on guard against foreign espionage and operations linked to Russia’s war in neighboring Ukraine.

A rail line linking Warsaw to the eastern Polish city of Lublin and onward to Ukraine was blown up yesterday in an “act of sabotage,” Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today.

Are we in a new cold war?

Very interesting answer from John Foreman in Britain's World, alongside many others for whoever cares to read them all: www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-as...

Report a vulnerability on an FCDO system Guidance on how to report a security vulnerability on any Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office service or system.

FCDO has launched a vulnerability reporting system.

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British government unveils long-awaited landmark cybersecurity bill After years of delays, the British government introduced its landmark Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to Parliament, threatening large fines for companies that fail to protect themselves from cyber...

After more than four years of development and multiple delays, the British government on Wednesday introduced its landmark Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to Parliament, threatening large fines for companies that fail to protect themselves from cyberattacks.

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Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the No. 2 at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has emerged as a potential pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, multiple people familiar with the search told...

A senior U.S. military officer with no digital warfare experience has emerged as a top contender to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, Recorded Future News has learned.

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This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a 'Staggering’ Scam Text Operation Google is suing 25 people it alleges are behind a “relentless” scam text operation that uses a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse.

NEW: Google is taking legal action against Chinese cybercriminals responsible for sending out millions of scam text messages—including those parcel delivery scams.

Google hopes the lawsuit will help to disrupt the scammers' sprawling infrastructure

NHS patients to finally be informed if hackers published their STI and cancer test data U.K. pathology services company Synnovis says it has begun notifying individuals if their sensitive healthcare data was posted online by a ransomware gang, 17 months after the incident.

🏥 More than a year after a ransomware group published blood test information regarding NHS patients’ sexually transmitted infections and cancer cases, the company directly impacted by the breach, Synnovis, says it is beginning the process that will notify the individuals impacted.

I honestly think we do ourselves enormous damage by joking about Russian technological advances. This is a genuinely groundbreaking moment and one we should all take a moment to recognise; a humanoid robot trained to perfectly mimic the gait and coordination of Dmitry Medvedev flawlessly.

Original story: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-spy-service-cia-ursula-von-der-leyen/

A cynic might point out the language of Varoufakis’ criticism echoes a Politico report that originated the now widely-misrepresented Niinistö report as having recommended the creation of “a CIA-style European spy service.” For at least two dozen obvious reasons, that is a non-starter.

Hmmm.

Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown An expired 2015 law that gives companies liability protection when they share cyberthreat information with the federal government would be renewed through January 30 under Senate legislation to end th...

Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown

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Tank interview: A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.

"Paranoia is a constant friend of hackers." In an exclusive interview for our podcast, we went inside a Colorado prison to interview former Most Wanted cyber criminal 'Tank'. Vyacheslav Penchukov, climbed to the top of the Russian-speaking cyber-underworld.
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I'm also really pleased to have raised more than £400! If anyone would still like to donate, you can do so here: givestar.io/gs/gainsboro...

Thank you so much to everyone for your support! I'm glad I completed it, although I wish I'd managed it in a much quicker time. Still, it's good to have completed a half marathon and hopefully I can improve on my time in the future!

Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers The U.K.'s water suppliers have reported five cyberattacks since January 2024, according to information reviewed by Recorded Future News. The incidents did not affect the safety of water supplies, but...

Hackers have launched five cyberattacks against Britain's drinking water suppliers since the beginning of last year, according to reports filed with the drinking water watchdog and partially disclosed to Recorded Future News under freedom of information laws.

Just a few more days to go before this race. I'm hugely grateful to the wonderful people who have donated so far and the thought of not letting you all down will keep me going when things start to get tough about the 2km mark 😅

Broken bones, heart attacks and chemical burns - the human cost of Amazon orders 2,500 serious injury incidents have been recorded in UK Amazon warehouses in the last ten years - roughly one injury every day and a half

Many months in the reporting - my investigation into Amazon warehouses is finally live today. A huge thank you to the workers and others who spoke to me, on and off the record. inews.co.uk/news/human-c...

Rednote, rankings, and rumoured riches: The real lives of Sheffield's Chinese Students We get behind the simplistic stereotypes

Fascinating to read the reporting about Sheffield Hallam's treatment of Professor Laura Murphy. It's also another great opportunity to share this excellent article in @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social about Chinese students in Sheffield.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

"The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC".

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New names surface for NSA director, other top jobs at spy agency Officers from the Army and Air Force are under consideration to lead the NSA, and moves could be happening soon for other top jobs at the spy agency, sources tell Recorded Future News.

After a months-long leadership vacuum amid intense scrutiny from one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal far-right supporters, the National Security Agency is readying a number of senior personnel moves meant to reinvigorate the organization.

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I don't disagree that people shouldn't be able to monetise promoting violence, but €56 in donations is hardly being paid handsomely is it?

Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.

EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.

UK cyber law delays 'deeply concerning,' say MPs Major recent cybersecurity incidents should spur the British government to act decisively on new cybersecurity laws, opposition MPs say.

Today: The Counter Ransomware Initiative met in Singapore, with the UK govt using the opportunity to celebrate its "tough new proposals to crack down on ransomware attacks."

But, as opposition MPs complained earlier this week, there are some real concerns about turning those proposals into laws...

UK cyber law delays 'deeply concerning,' say MPs Major recent cybersecurity incidents should spur the British government to act decisively on new cybersecurity laws, opposition MPs say.

British opposition lawmakers said this week it was “deeply concerning” the government had still not introduced new cybersecurity laws to Parliament, warning that “gaps in our legislation” are “fuelling even greater threats against our nation.”

UK facing ‘most contested and complex’ threat in decades, warns GCHQ director Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned.

Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned on Wednesday.

Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”

'PhantomCaptcha' hackers impersonate Ukrainian president’s office in attack on war relief workers A spearphishing campaign earlier in October disappeared within a day, according to cybersecurity researchers, but it was aimed at a wide variety of targets associated with the war in Ukraine.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a mysterious spearphishing campaign impersonating the Ukrainian president’s office that disappeared on the same day it was launched in a bid to compromise organizations involved in war relief efforts.

Very interesting to see Bradley Thomas bring this forward. I assume it's an attempt to encourage the govt to bringing forward its own bill on ransomware?

The Home Office has (of course) been mooting such a bill for years now and in July responded to a consultation on it: www.gov.uk/government/c...

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