St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council has reported a ransomware attack and is working with authorities to investigate and deal with the issues. Details are not available yet of any data theft of citizen’s information or extortion but it has had an impact on the council services St Helens Council still …
The UK’s Online Safety Bill and Big Tech, you and me…
Before we start i have written a lot about the Government’s Online Safety Bill – I think some of the bill will address serious issue of bad online activity and disagree that the weakening of end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for everyone, to enable law enforcement to catch criminals and particularly child abusers …
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Really it is not a scam…
…but isn’t that what a scammer would say? Here is an interesting situation to start off the cyber news week. How do you convince people your official website and service is not a scam? The Government is constantly having to do this for their Household Response Service. UK gov keeps …
Apple and End-to-End Encryption
Apple has joined the debate about the UK government’s proposed bill to weaken every UK citizen’s privacy online, by threatening to pull affected Apple services from the UK market. As Apple (and several articles I have posted) state, laws already exist for the authorities to breach the privacy of citizens …
Why we all need end-2-end-encryption
Here is a short BBC video explaining why E2EE protects our privacy from prying service companies and hackers: What is end to end encryption and why are police concerned about its rise? – BBC News As with all E2EE articles terrorists and child abusers are mentioned. Law enforcement already has …
