Latest Great Britain news

UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards

Starting today, millions living in the UK will receive email invitations to sign up for an e-visa account that will replace their physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs). The move is, according to the Home Office, "a key step in creating a modernised and digital border."
- Ax Sharma
- April 17, 2024
- 01:48 AM
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UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas

By 2025, Britain is set to ditch physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) and Biometric Residence Cards (BRCs) in a bid to make its borders digital, in-line with developed countries like Australia. Understand what these Home Office changes mean for existing BRP and BRC holders, and what you need to do.
- Ax Sharma
- February 10, 2024
- 05:00 AM
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Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles

A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 18, 2023
- 02:04 PM
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UK government transport website caught showing porn

A UK Department for Transport (DfT) website was caught serving porn earlier today. The particular DfT subdomain behind the mishap, on most days, provides vital DfT statistics for the public and the department's business plan.
- Ax Sharma
- November 25, 2021
- 02:33 PM
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UK plans to invest £5 billion in retaliatory cyber-attacks

The United Kingdom has revealed plans to invest £5 billion in bolstering national cybersecurity that includes creating a "Cyber Force" unit to perform retaliatory attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- October 04, 2021
- 09:47 AM
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UK Tax Agency Recorded the Voices of 5.1 Million Brits

The UK's tax agency —HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs)— has collected the voice records of over 5.1 million Brits, a UK-based privacy and civil liberties group has discovered.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 24, 2018
- 03:25 PM
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Brexit: European Commission Wants to Cancel 317,000 .eu Domains Owned by Brits

The European Commission announced on Wednesday plans to cancel new registration and domain renewals for .eu domains owned by British citizens. EU citizens residing in the UK are also barred from registering or renewing domains.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 30, 2018
- 06:11 AM
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Cyber-Espionage Group Steals Data From UK Government Contractor

A cyber-espionage group historically believed to be operating in the interests of the Chinese government is believed to have hacked a UK government contractor from where security researchers found evidence that attackers stole information related to UK government departments and military technology.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 13, 2018
- 04:40 AM
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More UK Teens Involved in Hacking Than Gangs

UK teens aged 11 to 14 are more likely to be hacking than smoking, shoplifting, being part of a neighborhood gang, or even having sexual intercourse.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 05, 2018
- 04:35 PM
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Man Admits to Creating Crypting Service Cryptex and reFUD.me Scanner

A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty yesterday in a UK court for creating and advertising two malware-related services employed by thousands of criminals.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 16, 2018
- 06:21 AM
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Equifax Issues Second Breach Estimate Correction, Says 15.2M British Affected

For the second time since it fessed up to suffering a data breach last month, Equifax has issued a correction, acknowledging today in a press release that hackers stole details on over 15.2 million UK citizens.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- October 10, 2017
- 07:05 PM
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UK's Facial Recognition System Dumber Than a Box of Rocks, Privacy Group Argues

A real-time facial recognition software tested by London Metropolitan Police at this year's Notting Hill Carnival was labeled as a "resounding success" by police officers, but privacy groups members who were invited to view it in action called it "inaccurate and painfully crude."
- Catalin Cimpanu
- September 06, 2017
- 06:09 AM
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UK Law Proposal to Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data

British lawmakers have filed on Monday a statement of intent regarding proposals for improvements to the Data Protection Act, with a focus on criminalizing anonymous data re-identification, imposing larger fines for cyber incidents, and more user protections for British online netizens.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 09, 2017
- 03:25 PM
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UK Radio Station Hijacked Eight Times in the Past Month to Play Obscene Song

An unknown hacker has hijacked the radio frequency of a UK radio station to play an obscene song eight times during the past month, according to the radio station's manager who recently revealed the hacks in an interview with BBC Radio.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- July 12, 2017
- 06:27 AM
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UK Govt Wants Encryption Backdoors but Can't Even Protect Its Email Servers From a Brute-Force Attack

A "determined" attacker has breached the email system of the UK Parliament over the weekend, according to a statement put out by the UK government on Sunday afternoon.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 26, 2017
- 11:00 AM
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UK Passes the Most Extreme Surveillance Law in the History of Western Democracy

The UK government passed yesterday a new sweeping cyber-surveillance that grants authorities the legal power to collect web traffic and telephony data on all UK citizens in bulk, even on people that have never committed a crime or aren't the subjects of an official investigation.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 18, 2016
- 08:15 AM
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