By Kevin Peachey A computer failure at TSB that caused up to 1.9 million people to lose access to online banking services is being investigated by the financial regulator. The…
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Hacking the House: do MPs care about cyber-security?
Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent What’s the cyber-security policy in your organisation? Is it common to share login passwords with your colleagues? Because that’s how it works in the House of…
'It was always going to happen': Inside the cyber-attack on parliament
By Gordon Corera, Security correspondent On 23 June the British parliament came under a sustained cyber attack. In a matter of hours hackers made around 200,000 attempts to get into…
Election candidates warned about phishing attempts
By Chris Vallance, World at One, BBC Radio 4 Candidates in the general election have been asked to look through their emails for signs that they have been targeted by…
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…
MPs question UK's cyber attack defences
A skills shortage and “chaotic” handling of personal data breaches are undermining confidence in the government’s ability to protect the UK from cyber attacks, MPs have warned. The Commons Public…