Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the UK and counts among it’s contracts the Ministry of Defence’s nuclear submarine training simulators, has reported it has suffered a “cyber incident”. Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ (therecord.media) The nature of the incident has not been disclosed …
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Some governments do not like private citizen using VPNs to hide their online activities and protect their privacy. Here is an opinion piece from Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica discussing this: Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say | Ars Technica
We have the National Cyber Security Centre – why is this new agency not a department of that? UK creates new National Protective Security Agency • The Register It is a good idea to have a department with these specific responsibilities but a completely new agency – it is our …
The announcement is going to made today. Chinese app TikTok to be banned on UK government phones – BBC News This follows several weeks of intense international backlash against the Chinese social media company TikTok over the access and control the Chinese Government may be exerting over it. It is …
The UK Government wants to legislate against end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for online communications – so law enforcement can monitor your and criminals’ online communications. I have written about this a lot – as I think the privacy of law abiding citizens is important and law enforcement should use the current laws, …
