Public bodies join up to form CyberScotland
Newly created organisation aims to improve national resilience
Personal data of 600 people exposed by Scottish Borders Council data breach
Email addresses and info about eligibility for payments accidentally revealed
Ten remote-working hubs to be opened for Northern Irish officials
Northern Ireland Civil Service to implement ‘blended approach to remote working’
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MoJ plans £250k cybersecurity review
Department looks to cultivate ‘modern security stack’
NHS taps Accenture for £40m perimeter security deal
Consulting giant to provide services including firewalls and data-loss prevention
Government launches £2m fund for driverless cybersecurity testing
Grants of up to £400,000 available
CCS goes live with £5bn Network Services 2 framework despite three missing lots
The last three of the deal's planned 13 sections will be awarded when CCS 'is in a position to do so'
Army restructure introduces cyber and electronic warfare division
Commander Field Army claims that lines between conventional and unconventional warfare are blurring
Government badly needs a new message on encryption
Home secretary calls for government back doors for encrypted data
Priti Patel joins forces with other Five Eyes representatives to take a stand against encryption
Three quarters of NHS computers still running Windows 7 less than six months before support cut-off
DHSC indicates that more than a million machines are still on the decade-old operating system
Government issues call for evidence on digital identity
Cabinet Office and DCMS seek input on key questions, including the respective roles that should be played by government and industry
Government review of Student Loans Company finds ‘overwhelmed and outdated IT’
Organisation’s tech and digital set-up needs improvement, report finds
NHS still running 2,300 PCs on Windows XP
Shadow Cabinet Office minister criticises government’s track record on cybersecurity
Law Commission to recommend legal reforms for online harassment
Statutory body asked to conduct a secondary review of internet abuse law
ICO slaps record £183m fine on British Airways for GDPR breach
Airline facing massive penalty after incident in which regulator claims the personal data of 500,000 customers was compromised
Newly created Buckinghamshire unitary authority starts building digital presence
Council that will encompass five existing entities sets aside £700k for website construction
US ambassador warns UK of Huawei 5G risk
Woody Johnson compares the use of the vendor’s equipment to ‘letting a kleptomaniac into your house’
Government to trial scheme to record citizens’ internet connections
Ability to compel telecoms firms to gather data was introduced in Investigatory Powers Act
NCSC warns over ‘password spray’ attacks of council cloud services
Move to web-based software increases need for good password management, advises cybersecurity organisation
Government to consult on Bitcoin risks
After last year’s taskforce report, a full consultation will open shortly
Home Office leads state-sector Amazon spending
Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018
Ministry of Justice sets minimum security standards for AWS
Users of S3 storage warned against allowing public access, to tackle ‘leaky bucket’ risk
Report reveals massive spike in Home Office data breach reporting following GDPR
New legislation saw the department recording and reporting many more incidents