Campaigners plan legal action over NHS data sharing

A coalition comprising medical organisations, privacy campaigns and a Conservative MP, supported by tech justice specialists Foxglove, is preparing to embark on legal action against the government to force... Read more »

NHS Digital’s GP data-scraping plan must be publicised and delayed

The public remains largely unaware that their GP records will soon be made available to third parties through an NHS data-sharing initiative. With this in mind, we are calling on... Read more »

HSBC offers all businesses scam awareness app

HSBC UK is offering a mobile app to businesses to help them keep up to date with the latest scams being used by fraudsters to steal money. The free... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Printers can’t be an ‘add-on’ in your cyber strategy

While the world is in the midst of digitisation, one of the things that has accelerated this global digital transformation is the Covid-19 pandemic – specifically, acceleration occurred due... Read more »

BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’

The vast majority of the 55 million people in England whose GP records will be shared with third-parties within weeks under a new NHS Digital scheme are unaware of... Read more »

Secrecy around EncroChat cryptophone hack breaches French constitution, court hears

French prosecutors have unlawfully invoked “defence secrecy” to avoid disclosing information about the hacking operation into the EncroChat encrypted phone network, a court heard yesterday. French police infiltrated the... Read more »

Government action on ransomware epidemic gathers pace

The US government is stepping up action against the current epidemic of ransomware, which this week has seen one of the world’s largest meat suppliers, JBS, hit by attackers,... Read more »

Security observability tools step up threat detection, response

Mean time to contain (MTTC) is a metric security teams can use to assess the effectiveness of their tools and practices. It measures the amount of time taken to... Read more »

Norway’s auditor general lifts lid on energy industry’s cyber security risks

Norway’s Auditor General’s Office (AGO) has questioned the general standard of cyber defence competence among leading companies and agencies in the country’s public energy sector. It identified shortcomings in... Read more »

Tories fined over email data protection breaches

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £10,000 fine to the Conservative Party for sending unsolicited marketing emails to 51 individuals who had unsubscribed from its mailing list,... Read more »
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