Cyber News

Low-level, politically driven cyber attackers targeting Britain’s networks are achieving little more than digital vandalism. A spate of cyber-attacks aimed at critical national infrastructure and local government systems across the UK has revealed a frustrating reality: these so-called hackers are hardly sophisticated cyber masterminds. They are low-level, technically inept troublemakers bent on disruption rather than infiltration. Their preferred method, the Denial of

Keir Starmer’s government has waved through plans for a massive new Chinese “super embassy” in central London — and it’s hard to imagine a more dangerously naïve move. Despite repeated warnings from MI5 that it’s “unrealistic to eliminate every potential risk,” Labour’s top brass have decided Beijing can build a sprawling base right in the capital’s heart.

The British Army’s cyber warriors are to benefit from modern accommodation and specialist training facilities following a £279 million investment announced yesterday for the Duke of Gloucester Barracks in Gloucestershire. The huge project will deliver new infrastructure for the 13 Signal Regiment, which conducts the Army’s defensive cyber operations. Construction is due to begin next year and is expected to be

Allowing a huge Chinese Embassy in the heart of London is insane by itself, but now it has been reported that there is a ‘secret chamber’ right next to the fibre optic cables for the city.  The city cables are among some of Britain’s most sensitive and could soon neighbour a network of 208 secret

Keir Starmer has reportedly backed plans to scrap the compulsory identity scheme for workers, the original decision was roundly disliked across all parties anyway. The plans were thrown into confusion yesterday after The Times reported ministers were rowing back on the compulsory element, allowing other digital documents to be used for right-to-work check. The idea

Earlier this week I published a positive article about the government announcement regarding a £210 million investment in a ‘Cyber Action Plan’. But after admitting numerous failures in how Whitehall currently defends its own digital systems the cracks started to show. It all looked good on the surface, but when I dug deeper the realisation