Who gave marketing agency access to super-sensitive address database? By Gareth Corfield London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of…
Month: April 2017
Holiday Inn hotels hit by card payment system hack
The owner of the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotel brands has disclosed that payment card-stealing malware has struck about 1,200 of its franchisees’ properties. UK-based Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)…
Callisto Group hackers targeted Foreign Office data
By Chris Vallance, World at One, BBC Radio 4 The UK’s Foreign Office was targeted by highly motivated and well-resourced hackers over several months in 2016. The BBC understands the…
UK Firms Hit by 43,000 Cyber-Attacks Each in Q1
By Phil Muncaster UK firms were forced to fend off 43,000 cyber-attacks each in the first quarter of 2017, with IoT devices in particular targeted. According to new stats from…
Aga app 'could let hackers turn off oven'
By Chris Baraniuk, Technology reporter An app that lets Aga cooker owners remotely control their ovens could be hijacked by hackers, a cybersecurity researcher has claimed. Ken Munro of Pen…
Brexit vote site may have been hacked, MPs say in report
A voter registration site that crashed in the run-up to last year’s EU referendum could have been targeted by a foreign cyber attack, MPs say. The “register to vote” site…