Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei will invest the equivalent of $2 billion in the UK. During the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Tianjin, the world's second largest networking supplier announced long-term plans to expand its activities as well as its research and development.
A number of 10 individuals have been sentenced to a total of 40 years by a judge at the Guildford Crown Court after they had convinced several elderly citizens to hand over more than £120,000 ($191,916 or 150122 EUR).
“The sentences that have been handed to these callous individuals have ensured that they are locked up for some time to come,” Detective Chief Inspector Paul Rymarz of the Surrey Police said.
The U.K.'s Home Office will decide by Oct. 16 whether to block the extradition to the U.S. of Gary McKinnon, who has admitted to hacking into U.S. government computers, McKinnon's attorney said on Thursday.
McKinnon, 46, of north London, was indicted in 2002 at the U.S. District Court in Virginia for hacking into 97 military and NASA computers between February 2001 and March 2002.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has joined the opposition to the Communications Data Bill that was proposed by the UK government earlier this year. Civil rights groups have raised the alarm about provisions that could require British ISPs to keep records of every website their customers visit for 12 months. Now Wales is threatening to enable encryption on Wikipedia for UK Web users to protect their privacy.
The government's spy agency, GCHQ, is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks.
The programme, dubbed Cyber Security for Business, will be the first time that the government and intelligence services have co-operated directly with the private sector in this type of role and could be the first of many future programmes, the Independent newspaper reported.
Security company Imation has found that the number of self-reported data breaches in the United Kingdom has skyrocketed since 2007, in some instances by over a thousand percent.
According to a report in Computer Business Review, figures from the UK Data Protection and Information Commissioner's Office — obtained under freedom of information — show that local government data breaches increased by a staggering 1609 percent over the last five years.
It was always to be expected that hacktivists would respond vigorously to the effective house arrest of Julian Assange within the Ecuador Embassy in London, and the UK’s apparent determination to extradite him to Sweden.
Former Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain says he is "angry" that his website has been targeted by computer hacking network Anonymous.
The group has said it is attacking government websites in retaliation for the UK's handling of the case of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But the Neath MP said the move was a form of intimidation.
A fairly basic security slip has showed just how far the British police are preparing to go to make sure Julian Assange doesn't leaving the UK without getting his collar felt.
"Action required – Assange to be arrested under all circumstances," reads a handwritten briefing note photographed in the hands of one of the officers surrounding the Ecuadorian embassy. The note says Assange is to be arrested if he leaves the embassy in the company of another diplomat or if the Ecuadorians try and smuggle him out in the diplomatic bag.
Tesco has confirmed it is making changes to its website's systems, following claims that it was putting users' personal data at risk due to inadequate password security.
Tesco confirmed the unspecified changes to its IT systems will be made in the near future, in a statement sent to V3 on Wednesday.
