The British man that allegedly hacked into the Fox reality TV show "The X-Factor" and the "PBS News Hour," along with music companies and government security agencies, was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on conspiracy and hacking charges today, according to the Associated Press.
The UK government is planning to half the number of security levels it uses internally from six to three in an attempt to simplify the accreditation process for suppliers looking to provide services to the public sector.
Andy Nelson, government CIO, was speaking at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London today and explained that the public sector was also hoping to have most services accredited in the lower security levels.
Don’t worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally.
The U.K. government is haemorrhaging data — private and confidential citizen data — from medical records to social security details, and even criminal records, according to figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests.
The Internet isn't a law-free zone, the U.K. government's top law officer warned Twitter users Friday, adding that he wouldn't hesitate to take action over offending posts.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the government's chief legal advisor in England and Wales, spoke out following a series of high-profile court cases involving postings made on the microblogging site.
Anonymous has reportedly knocked the Virgin Media web site offline in what's believed to be retaliation against the network's blocking of The Pirate Bay.
Virgin Media was the first UK internet service provider (ISP) to block access to The Pirate Bay after a court order was issued at the end of April, in a move that led to an outcry among digital activists claiming the order represented the next stage of internet censorship.
The Pirate Bay website may be blocked soon from six of the UK's Internet Service Providers, but the publicity surrounding that move has apparently caused a big traffic jump on The Pirate Bay site itself.TorrentFreak.com reports that according to an unnamed spokesperson for the site, "Thanks to the High Court and the fact that the news was on the BBC, we had 12 MILLION more visitors yesterday than we had ever had before."
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has warned that the London 2012 Olympic Games "will not be immune" to cyber attacks.
However, it may depend on the type of cyber attack, as the CIO for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) said last year that cyber criminals would find it "very hard" to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Games' website.
The High Court has ruled that five of the UK's largest internet service providers must block access to Swedish-based file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) claims that sites like The Pirate Bay infringe copyright on a massive scale, destroying jobs in the UK and undermining investment in new UK artists.
A study by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found that more than one in 10 second hand hard drives sold or given away in Britain contains recoverable personal information of the original owner.
Upon releasing the the results of the study this week, the data protection regulatory agency urged consumers to take better care of their data. It also released a list of ways individuals can securely delete personal information from old devices.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a suit against British twin brothers alleging a cunning variation on the classic 'pump and dump' stock fraud that used the prowess of a non-existent computer program to con over $3 million from eager investors.
Extraordinarily, the pair, Thomas and Alexander Hunter from seaside town Whitley Bay near Newcastle, are said to have set up the fraud in 2007 when they were only 16 years old, not even young enough to vote or legally drink alcohol.
