EU recognises UK data protection adequacy but warns against divergence

Businesses in the UK will be able to continue to exchange data with Europe following a long-awaited decision that the UK’s data protection regime is compatible with Europe’s data... Read more »

Banking tech fraud: How to trace and recover your money

Push payment fraud, where individuals, businesses and financial institutions are tricked into sending payments to bank accounts controlled by fraudsters, is a very common occurrence. Such scams are not... Read more »

Insurers unprepared for challenges of underwriting ransomware

The contribution of the insurance sector to improving cyber security best practice to date has been more limited than both policy makers and businesses might like, and an industry-wide... Read more »

UK’s FCA bans crypto exchange Binance as crackdown spreads

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Binance Markets Limited – part of the Binance cryptocurrency trading platform – from undertaking any regulatory activity in the UK, and has... Read more »

HMRC-branded phishing scams surge despite protections

The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams jumped from 572,029 in the 2019-2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in the 2020-2021 period, an 87% surge, according to statistics obtained... Read more »

NCSC CEO: UK-Ireland collaboration crucial to stop cyber threats

Lindy Cameron, CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is highlighting the importance of collaboration between the UK and Ireland on cyber security issues and threats, in... Read more »

Anglesey schools offline after cyber attack

Isle of Anglesey County Council in north Wales has been forced to shut off IT systems at all five of the island’s secondary schools following a cyber attack of... Read more »

CMA to probe Amazon and Google over fake reviews

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened formal enforcement proceedings against tech giants Amazon and Google relating to possible breaches of consumer protection law, amid concerns that... Read more »

AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching a global competition to encourage developers to hunt out a million dodgy code and software vulnerabilities, and potentially eliminate hundreds of millions of... Read more »

Google hands third-party cookies a stay of execution

Google has postponed the introduction of its planned Privacy Sandbox initiative – including the timeline for the phasing out third-party cookies in the Chrome web browser – to the... Read more »
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