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British businessman Arron Banks, one of the self-styled “Bad Boys of Brexit” and a leading figure of the Leave.EU campaign, has had his Twitter account hacked.
Continue reading Bad boy of Brexit Arron Banks hacked, private Twitter messages leaked
The threats follow a DDos attack bent on taking out the Labour Party’s online presence. Continue reading Lizard Squad Threatens UK’s Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family
The British Home Office’s app for EU citizens applying to live and work in the UK post-Brexit “could allow hackers to steal phone numbers, addresses and passport details.”
But is this something worth losing any sleep over?
Continue reading About the “easy to hack” EU Exit: ID Document Check app
The British parliament has been unable to agree the exit package from the European Union. With the possibility of a “no deal” departure looming, EU leaders have granted a six-month extension to Brexit day. But the uncertainty that still lin… Continue reading How Brexit Impacts the Future of Europe’s Cybersecurity Posture
As a vendor, Tripwire gets asked a lot of questions from customers and potential clients about how developments in the wider world might affect digital security. One of those forces that’s on everyone’s mind is Brexit. Representatives from … Continue reading How Will Brexit Affect Cybersecurity for UK Organizations?
In the last couple of days, Google announced it will be putting restrictions on Huawei’s access to its Android operating system, massively threatening Huawei’s smartphone market. Meanwhile, UK based chip designer ARM has told its staff to su… Continue reading The UK Government Huawei Dilemma and the Brexit Factor
British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr gave a passionate speech at the TED conference in Vancouver this week. You should watch it.
Continue reading Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy
Far-right Twitter accounts apparently originating in the U.S. amplified pro-Brexit propaganda between December and February and December, according to research published Tuesday by F-Secure, a Finnish cybersecurity company. An analysis of 24 million tweets related to Brexit from 1.65 million users uncovered “inorganic” activity on both sides of the debate, though disinformation was “far more” frequent in among supporters of the United Kingdom’s scheduled withdrawal from the European Union. “At the very least, our research shows there’s a global effort amongst the far-right to amplify the ‘leave’ side of the debate,” Andy Patel, a senior researcher with F-Secure’s Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, said in a statement Tuesday. Researchers determined that several separate accounts retweeted messages from @Brexiteer30, @UnityNewsNet and @JackBMontgomery, an editor with the alt-right Breitbart News. Nearly 6,000 accounts magnified messages from those three far-right accounts, F-Secure found. Many of those pages also included some version of #MakeAmericaGreatAgain […]
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This year’s International Women’s Day 2019 theme of #BalanceforBetter is a positive call-to-action to drive gender balance across the world. This year’s campaign states that “the race is on” for a gender-balanced… Continue reading International Women’s Day: Brexit, Skills-Gap and #BalanceforBetter in the Cybersecurity Industry
On 19th July 2018 the UK government, through the GCHQ backed Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, gave “limited assurance” that Huawei poses no threat to UK National Security. Since then the UK, EU, and NATO member government politician… Continue reading Is Huawei a Threat to UK National Security?