We’ve been hearing whispers about a national digital ID from the UK Government for years, and now it has a name: ‘BritCard’. On the surface, the pitch sounds tempting: a simple way to access services, prove who you are, and make…
The US Secret Service has shut down a massive “SIM farm” close to where a UN summit is being held in New York. While world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly – marking its 80th anniversary – a vast, hidden digital netw…
A new report from cybersecurity firm NETSCOUT shows that a record over eight million global DDoS attacks were launched in H1 2025, with attackers timing assaults to coincide with major political events and cause maximum chaos. Nation-states and hacktiv…
Ukraine’s vast experience fighting a major cyber war against Russia would be invaluable to an alliance with the UK and EU to defend Europe. A paper by Dr Nataliya Tkachuk for the NATO CCDCOE calls for the creation of a ‘Cyber Alliance’ between Ukraine,…
No country is an island when it comes to cyber defence, which is why the UK is deepening relations with its partners in Asia. The idea that a threat can be contained by borders is a relic from a bygone era. A single line of malicious code written in on…
We’re all facing a barrage of scam calls, and now UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is stepping up the fight against them. If you’ve ever hesitated to answer a call from an unknown UK mobile number, you’re not alone. Ofcom’s new plan targets one of the most …
The UK and France are uniting to counter digital warfare and protect vital modern technology from increasing cyber threats. In a world where your smartphone’s map app can guide you to the nearest coffee shop and freight ships navigate vast oceans…
As military conflict tensions rise between Iran, Israel, and the US, security experts warn of increasing cyberattacks targeting your devices. The bombs might be falling in the Middle East, but the digital fallout could land in your office. That’s…
Chinese state-sponsored hackers Salt Typhoon have been caught targeting telecoms companies across Canada as part of an ongoing global espionage operation. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) sounded the alarm this week. Working alongs…
Cloudflare thwarted the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a colossal 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) torrent of malicious data aimed at one of its customers. The event, which took place in mid-May, was 12 percent larger …