The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children.
An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading as Trustopia), an employment screening firm, to check whether people opening online gambling accounts were 18.
The National Cyber Security Centre’s CEO Lindy Cameron delivered a keynote speech at the Chatham House security and defence conference 2022.
Lindy Cameron discussed the cyber dimension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, focusing on what the NCSC has observed and the UK’s response.
A ransomware group has hit at least one water company in the United Kingdom, but there is some confusion over whose systems were actually breached.
Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition.
The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to stop obtaining and using the personal data of UK residents that is publicly available on the internet, and to delete the data of UK residents from its systems.
A new website that published leaked emails from several leading proponents of Britain's exit from the European Union is tied to Russian hackers, according to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence.
The actions of the relatively new group have led to an international police hunt.
They’re accused of colluding to carve up the advertising market between them
