8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (626+ words) Kensington and Chelsea Council has written to 100,000 households warning their personal details may have been taken in a recent cyber attack. The town hall urged residents to follow National Cyber Security Centre advice and warned criminals could use the information…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (648+ words) Hundreds of state-of-the-art electric buses operating across Britain could be remotely switched off by China due to a "kill switch" in their batteries, security services have discovered. Each of the Yutong buses is fitted with an onboard SIM card to…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (493+ words) A central London council said potentially sensitive and personal information was likely “copied and taken” by hackers during a cyber attack in November. Westminster City Council said the breach involved some “limited data” hosted on a shared IT system with…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (520+ words) Multiple London councils were hit with cyber attacks this week, prompting the National Crime Agency and GCHQ’s Cyber Security Centre to launch an emergency investigation. It’s not yet known who was behind the attack, what the motive was, or if…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (424+ words) Two teenagers have pleaded not guilty to carrying out a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL). Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, were arrested in September as part of an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and City of…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (882+ words) Chinese hackers pose a “highly sophisticated and capable” threat to the UK, GCHQ’s cyber security agency has warned. The warning came after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recorded a 50% increase in “highly significant” online incidents carried out by criminals…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (356+ words) Two people have been arrested after cyberhackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain…...

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (335+ words) Two people have been arrested over a cyber attack which targeted a London-based nursery chain. Kido, which has 18 branches in and around London, was hit by the ransomware attack last month. It is understood that a cybercriminal gang used the…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (251+ words) The ninth annual Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report has landed. It reveals 80% of companies report paying a ransom to recover or protect critical data, and 59% of SMEs experienced a cyberattack in the last 12 months. In light of cyber attacks on firms…...