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Britain starts tapping video recordings of smartphone users for Criminal database
All those who are using Smart Phones in Britain and surrounding areas should better be aware that the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency(NCA) has started building a database which is loaded with voice recordings scrapped from the smartphone users of the region. The objective of this database is to compare the audio files with the […]
UK becomes a hub for Cyber Attacks as more Manufactures and Schools become victims
A research conducted by the National Cyber Security Center(NCSC) in association with the London Grid for Learning and Make UK- a manufactures organization says that the United Kingdom has become a hub for hackers to launch cyberattacks as more and more manufacturers and schools are becoming victims to various threats lurking in the cyber world. […]
China has been hacking data from UK mobile phones from the past 7 years
Its bad news to those using a mobile phone in the United Kingdom as a recent survey claims that hackers employed by the Chinese government have been spying on your call, text and internet data from the past 7 years. Yes, you’ve read it right! An Israeli based Cybersecurity firm named Cybereason has claimed this […]
Cybersecurity News trending on Google
1) According to a survey, Small and Medium Scale Businesses (SMBs) in the UK are being subjected to over 10,000 cyberattacks per day which could cost them £4.5 billion on an annual note. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) survey which included SMBs from Scotland says that over 1 million businesses operating across the UK […]
Online shopping in the UK now needs a security code to buy Online
Most of the UK’s online shopping customers from now on may face chaos while making their favorite purchases via the web as the new anti-fraud rules will make it mandatory for consumers to enter an online banking security code received via their smartphone to complete a purchase. Yes, what you have read is right! Those […]
Cyber Attack on London Power Grid could cost £111 million per day
A Cyber Attack on the power grid of London could not only leave more than 1.5 million people in dark but could also cost the city a loss of £111 million per day says a new study made by ITRC of the University of Oxford. According to a study conducted by the UK Infrastructure Transitions […]
Cyber Attacks on IoT cause £ 1billion loss to the UK economy
Recent research carried out by a Dutch Software firm named Irdeto claims that cyber attacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) are causing a £ 1billion loss to UK Economy. The software company estimates that the economy of the United Kingdom suffers over $244,000 loss on an average every year with malware attacks and data […]
UK allows Huawei to build 5G network shoving off US security alerts
Finally, Huawei seems to have managed to convince the government of the UK as it has got the nod of the government to build the 5G network across the United Kingdom on Wednesday. But UK’s Prime Minister has announced that the Chinese telecom equipment vendor will be allowed to supply its equipment for the network […]
Chinese intelligence is funding Huawei says US Intelligence
Chinese Telecom giant Huawei which is already facing a lot of flak from western countries for conducting espionage through its 5G equipment supply has received a new allegation from the CIA of the United States. The US Intelligence says that the telecom equipment manufacturer & supplier is reportedly receiving some secret funding from Chinese intelligence […]
Password 123456 was hacked over 23 million times worldwide
National Cyber Security Center(NCSC) said that one in two people are falling prey to cyber attacks in the United Kingdom and that’s due to the fact that they are failing to meet the standards of basic cyber hygiene. So, the NCSC has issued an official warning to Britons to stop using easily guessed passwords as […]
