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A spokesperson from the Labour Party in the United Kingdom has confirmed that the party’s digital platforms suffered a massive DDoS attack due to which its security systems were blocked. The attack occurred only a few weeks before the General Elections due on December 12, 2019, however, it is also claimed that none of the […]
IT security audit researchers at security firm Safety Detectives have revealed a massive data leak (up to 2 terabytes) hosted on an Elastic Server. The flaw affects around 3.5 million users of websites Pouringpounds.com and Cashkaro.com in India and the United Kingdom, whose data is already on sale on dark web. Both websites are operated […]
A couple of months ago information security specialists reported a hacking incident against London Metropolitan Police, whose Twitter account (with more than a million followers) was taken over by hackers to show a series of bizarre posts. The hackers also sent some emails from the Police Press Office. After months of research, the authorities have […]
In recent days, multiple reports emerged from data protection experts mentioning that, thanks to an upcoming U.S.-UK agreement, the authorities in these countries would finally have a way to access encrypted messages on instant messaging services such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. According to reports, based on statements from a source very close to the […]
Cybersecurity incidents continue to occur in public organizations. Ethical hacking specialists report that David Creery, a prominent official in the city of Woodstock, UK, has confirmed that public systems suffered an infection of an unidentified variant of malware that has prevented access to the networks of data and email server. The UK authorities are already […]
An unusual incident has brought a serious headache to the British authorities. According to web applications security specialists, about a week ago, an unidentified hacker or hacker group compromised the Twitter account of the London Metropolitan Police, better known as Scotland Yard. Hackers posted some tweets with messages against policemen. Most of the tweets posted […]
Information security service specialists report that the British Government has decided to take a more aggressive stance to deal with the cyberattacks originated in foreign countries. British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, ensures that the UK will invest more than £20M for the creation of a cyber intelligence unit to help “counterattack Russian cyberthreats”. In his […]
A hacker dedicated to blackmailing visitors of pornographic content websites has been arrested by the British authorities. According to the vulnerability testing specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the individual faces a sentence of up to six years in prison. Zain Qaiser, a 24-year-old British citizen, tried to infect millions of computer […]
According to specialists in ethical hacking training in India and the International Institute of Cyber Security, the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has put all their efforts in containing a ransomware attack that infected the systems of this organization (which it’s kind of a union of Police employees). Through their Twitter account, PFEW […]
United Kingdom authorities have determined that the visualization or transmission of this kind of content is illegal Legislation recently adopted in the United Kingdom states that accessing to online terrorist material will be considered a crime, involving a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, report network security and ethical hacking specialists from the […]
British police seized over 50 devices probably used to perform cyberattacks during several raids British authorities have carried out multiple raids against hundreds of cybercriminals throughout the United Kingdom. According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, these operations are part of an international campaign to trap users […]
The gang managed to generate revenues of more than £150k in a year of activity Three drug traffickers working on dark web were sentenced to just over 43 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, a powerful opioid, to hundreds of consumers around the world, report network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute […]
Problems continue for the social network giant Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg keeps receiving bad news for underestimating a British parliamentary commission that has been investigating the impact of online misinformation on democracy for the most part of this year. According to information security and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, this […]
The United Kingdom’s National Cybersecurity Centre has thwarted more than 1.6k attacks over the past two years, many of them deployed by other governments The UK cyber defense center has defended critical infrastructure and information from its territory against more than 1.6k cyberattacks in the past two years, as reported by experts in digital forensics […]