Gary Gibbon
Salisbury poisoning: what can the Government do to punish Russia?
Today’s forensic exposure of how GRU agents carried out the Salisbury poisoning is part of the Government’s attempt to hit back at the Russian state.
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Saudi hackers target Israeli credit card details
Saudi Arabian hackers have claimed a successful cyber attack on Israeli computer servers, publishing the financial details and mobile phone numbers of an estimated 400,000 people.
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Alleged LulzSec hacker released on bail
A teenager alleged to be a key member of the LulzSec hacker group has appeared in court, charged with launching cyber attacks on websites including the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
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Accused hacker Ryan Cleary ‘keen’ to assist police
A 19-year-old charged with carrying out a cyber attack on the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency is said to be “keen” to help with the police investigation. Ryan Cleary has appeared in court.
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Russian hackers steal and share NHS patients’ private data
The NHS has scrambled to set up a helpline after reports that Russian hackers stole records covering 300 million patient interactions.
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China suspected of hacking UK armed forces payroll
Rishi Sunak says a “malign actor” has broken into the armed forces payroll system, potentially compromising the details of more than a quarter of a million current and recently retired members of the military.
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Courts ‘brought to their knees’ by IT failure
Thousands of cases have been affected, trials disrupted and courts across England and Wales, say lawyers, were “brought to their knees” by a major IT failure which the Ministry of Justice is scrambling to fix.
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Gary Gibbon
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US hits Russia with sanctions over “election interference
As we’ve heard the US described the UK nerve agent attack as “a breach of international law”. But Washington has also now separately imposed sanctions against 19 Russians – accusing them of interfering in the 2016 US election and cyber attacks. It’s the strongest action yet taken against Moscow by the Trump administration.
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Russian hackers target UK
It was one of the issues which overshadowed the US elections: the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the subsequent CIA investigation. Now Channel 4 News has learnt that the same Russian group behind that cyber attack has also been hitting targets here in the UK.
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21st Century cold war?
The US is not alone in it’s cyber attack allegations – Britain and the EU have repeatedly warned of ‘Russian aggression’, using cyberspace to push its propaganda, exploit division, and subvert defence systems.
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Geoff White
Arrests at TalkTalk subcontractor over personal data breaches
Indian police have arrested three employees of a sub-contractor of TalkTalk, who are accused of stealing customers’ data and using it to con them out of thousands.
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Vodafone customers at risk after hack
Nearly 2,000 of the mobile phone giant’s customers are “open to fraud” after hackers accessed their account details.
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Gunman arrested after taking Dutch tv station off air: video
VIDEO: Dramatic footage of the moment police move in to detain a man who entered the offices of the Dutch national broadcaster, demanding to go on air.
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Hackers threaten South Korea nuclear firm
A threat is made to “stay away” from nuclear reactors in South Korea unless the government shuts three down before Christmas, after a cyber-attack on the power company running them.
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Obama ‘may put North Korea back on terror list’
US President Barack Obama says the cyber hack against Sony, blamed on North Korea, is not an “act of war” – but is considering putting them back on the terror list.
