The UK Government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that firms could face fines of up to £17m or 4% of global turnover if they fail to protect themselves from cyberattacks. The introduction of such financial penalties will be carried out by the data protection regulator, […]
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So due to the UK government being dicks and forcing all UK ISPs for store logs for 1 year of all visited websites, I decided to go ahead and start using a dedicated VPN service. I had a look around and decided that NordVPN was going to be the best […]
Well that’s not good, not good at all. The new bill will force internet companies to store their users’ browsing data for a year, and will allow the government to force phone makers to hack into people’s handsets. The House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, putting the huge […]
A security researcher has claimed that Mikey-Sakke, the security protocol behind the GCHQ-developed Secure Voice encryption standard, has a built-in backdoor that allows the UK spy agency to intercept and snoop on phone calls. The findings come from Dr Steven Murdoch of University College London, who published a […]
A British man has been rearrested and charged with hacking into US government agencies, including the US Army, NASA and the Federal Reserve. Lauri Love, who was arrested yesterday in Suffolk could face extradition to the US. UK hacker Lauri Love, a 30 year-old from Stradishall in Suffolk, was arrested […]