A 25-year-old British national named as Kai West faces a lengthy prison term in the US after a series of charges against him were unsealed by the authorities, alleging his involvement in multiple cyber attacks. West is alleged to have been the man behind the IntelBroker identity. Working with a group of hackers, he is…
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Thomas Herdman, a Canadian businessman facing trial for his alleged role in distributing Sky ECC cryptophones, was granted release by a Paris court on 26 June 2025, after entering his fifth year in pre-trial detention. French, Belgian and Dutch police infiltrated servers belonging to Sky ECC, the world’s largest cryptophone network, and acquired an estimated…
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Police are currently investigating 45 people in relation to potential crimes in the Post Office scandal, with seven so far formally identified as suspects. The national police investigation, known as Operation Olympos, was announced last year by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), which is spearheading the work alongside the Metropolitan Police. The team of…
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Four Silicon Valley executives have been recruited into a specialist tech-focused unit of the US Army Reserves in a bid to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and make the armed forces “more lethal”. According to an official US Army press release, the tech executives have been instantly appointed to senior officer ranks in Detachment 201:…
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed off two contracts worth a total of £280m with Fujitsu as the government department makes “bridging” arrangements while it decouples from Fujitsu datacentres and self-assessment system hosting. A £220m deal with Fujitsu will be in place until 2028, as HMRC moves to a hyperscale cloud provider to manage…
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Ciaran Martin founded the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and served as its first CEO from 2013 to 2020. He is a distinguished former civil servant who has worked directly with five prime ministers and a variety of senior ministers across three political parties, and has held senior positions at HM Treasury and the…
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Scattered Spider, the teenaged hacking collective behind recent cyber attacks on UK retailers Marks and Spencer (M&S) and Co-op, appears to be actively breaching targets in the airline sector, with multiple victims now observed, according to intelligence shared by Google Cloud’s Mandiant threat analysts immediately prior to the weekend of 28-29 June. Having made national…
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Insurance companies are warned to be on their guard against a spreading campaign of network intrusions orchestrated by the Scattered Spider cyber crime collective after evidence emerged that the teenage hacking gang has hit multiple insurance companies in the US amid a months-long resurgence in its activity, according to the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).…
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Reports of various Nvidia GPU scams keep surfacing, and scammers find new ways to trick shoppersSome buyers claim to have received old GPUs or a bag of rice instead of the card they expected to getShopping and selling second-hand is riddled with tricky situations, too — my friend got scammed out of $1,900It’s definitely not…
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Among the questions a head of technology may ponder are, what does it mean to be innovative, and perhaps, what technology can be used to drive an innovation strategy? Given the main way people tend to place bets with Bet365 is via its mobile app, Alan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology…
