The United Kingdom government made available their plans to help businesses around the country better deal and prevent data breaches, in the effort of making Britain an investor heaven.
With the release of the UK Cyber Security Strategy, businesses and individuals can at least hope that the state will help them miti... |
25 November 2011
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A recent request, in which the United Kingdom government was forced to reveal the large sums of money spent on proprietary software, shows that the time for open source applications has come.As V3 tells us, most Whitehall departments spend millions of pounds on programs that in some situations can be acquired for fr... |
6 September 2011
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According to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, Her Majesty's Treasury is one of the government departments with the highest rate of cyber attacks against them."During 2010, hostile intelligence agencies made hundreds of serious and pre-planned attempts to break into the Treasury’s compute... |
16 May 2011
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The UK foreign secretary, William Hague, said the British government is increasingly targeted in cyber attacks launched by foreign intelligence agencies.Speaking at a security conference in Munich on Friday, Mr. Hague revealed that three of its staff members were the target of a spear phishing attack last month.He ex... |
7 February 2011
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The UK Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCertUK) has taken Anonymous DDoS threats very seriously and has advised government departments to prepare to defend their websites."We would like to make you aware of a threat issued by the Anonymous group in reaction to the five arrests made yesterday by the Metropolitan P... |
28 January 2011
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For the past two weeks, you have learned more about the MMR scam – who set it up and why, so now, all that's left to find out is who knew about it and what was done to repair the damage.In 2004, when concerns about the credibility of the 1998 Lancet paper were raised, the medical establishment closed ranks... |
18 January 2011
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UK Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Jack Pickles announced that his department is considering upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, which seems out of line with the government's position of sticking with IE6 for now."Discussing with my department plans to upgrade staff to IE8 and ditch IE... |
12 August 2010
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The UK government announced that it will stick with using Internet Explorer 6 on its networks for now. It doesn't see any security benefit in upgrading to a more modern browser and plans to repel any attacks with firewalls and anti-malware solutions. Following the Aurora attacks against Google and 33 other large... |
30 July 2010
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor AVG have discovered that a section from the website of the Spelthorne Borough Council in the UK has been hacked and is serving exploits. According to their analysis, this is not the first time it happens. The incident has been reported by AVG's own Chief Research Offic... |
10 March 2009
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Right now, the most talked about topic in the UK is the one regarding file sharing and the agreement between the BPI, the Government and major ISPs to combat online piracy. No matter if you support the measures or if you simply feel strongly against them, it is important to make your opinion heard, and this is exactl... |
29 July 2008
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People who live in the UK, and by that we mean any and all neighborhoods in England and Wales, will have access to online maps that present the crime patterns in the particular place they live in, by the end of 2008. This is an initiative by the Home Secretary who reported earlier this month that the UK police force ... |
29 July 2008
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The UK has recently proposed the creation of a so-called "super database" with the purpose of logging information about every telephone call, text message, and e-mail sent. The thing is that, over the past four years, from 2004 up to this day, the MoD (Ministry of Defense) has officially admitted to losing a total of... |
19 July 2008
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If we are to listen to the ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), there are two major problems when it comes to the UK's games industry: the rating system, which should be PEGI and the lack of government support, which encourages game developers to migrate to Canada or France, where t... |
9 July 2008
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Chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Lord Broers draws attention to the fact that UK legislation has serious deficiencies in terms of security. The British Government must take action with regard to three major issues: there is a need for a law that will force organizations to report any data... |
9 July 2008
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Five British schools in Worcestershire have trialled some so-called "active" Wii video games to augment traditional Physical Education lessons with their final goal being the reduction of obesity of the population and encourage students to take and enjoy more exercise, everything in a fun way. Strange, because I alwa... |
31 January 2008
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This final piece of news I'm posting today has something to do with Eidos (responsible for the Tomb Raider series) being backed up by the ELSPA that the UK Government needs to do more for the gaming industry. OK... more what? More funding of course. According to the report, Jane Cavanagh OBE, Chief Executive of ... |
10 August 2007
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