A U.K. National Heath Service teaching hospital in northwest England reported a major cyberincident on Tuesday that forced the healthcare facility to cancel outpatient appointments for the day. Maternity services, neo-natal and emergency triage are "running as normal."
Revisions to U.K. government research funding guidelines and their complex application pose a challenge to early-stage tech companies, experts on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee inquiry. "We have definitely had issues," said Peadar Coyle, founder of AudioStack.
A warning from a British government official over the Russian cyberwar sparked a backlash from cybersecurity specialists who urged a measured approach. Russian attacks could "turn the lights off for millions of people," said Pat McFadden, minister for intergovernmental
Artificial intelligence tools currently used by organizations in the United Kingdom to screen job applicants pose privacy risks and are susceptible to bias and accuracy issues, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found. The ICO focused on machine learning and natural language processing.
British financial institutions must ensure by this spring that they could reasonably weather a third party tech outage on the scale of July's global meltdown of 8.5 million computers triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Too many breached organizations fail to acknowledge the detrimental impact their mishandling of people's personal data can have on affected individuals, and to treat victims with the "empathy" they deserve, said the U.K.'s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office.
Dependence on foreign capital in the United Kingdom for investments into artificial intelligence will stymie British technological progress, a parliamentary committee heard Tuesday. An absence of capital makes it hard for British firms to scale operations, said Michael Holmes, CEO at Scale Space
The U.K. government should work ahead of a June deadline to retain its status as a trusted host of European commercial and law enforcement data, urged the head of a parliamentary committee. The economic value of an EU "adequacy agreement" is "substantial," wrote Peter Ricketts.
While the U.K. Payment Systems Regulator is taking steps to ensure customers receive consistent treatment from banks, fraud protection still has inconsistencies. Several policies have been introduced to protect fraud victims, but consumers can't always count on them, said PSR’s Kate Fitzgerald.
As API adoption expands, organizations face unique security risks. Traditional website protection measures fall short, leaving businesses vulnerable to authentication and authorization abuses, said Richard Meeus, director of security technology and strategy for EMEA at Akamai.
The U.K. government's proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is a "good step forward" to encourage ransomware incident reporting, said Ciaran Martin, the former NCSC chief. But he said the success of the new regulations also hinges on the support mechanism for cyber victims.
The U.K. experienced a 50% spike in cybersecurity incidents posing national security risks this year, according to NCSC CEO Richard Horne. Growing advancements in emerging tech are widening the gap between offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, he warned.
A British cybersecurity official touted Operation Cronos, an international operation against LockBit, saying multiple strikes aimed at the ransomware-as-a-service have disrupted its ability to recruit hackers. The operation has resulted in indictments, sanctions, and server takedowns.
The British government will continue disruptive actions against ransomware and malware operators, a top U.K. government official vowed Wednesday. Stephen Doughty, Minister of State, said the recently elected U.K. government views security as a core pillar of economic and strategic growth.
The United Kingdom's National Health Service said nearly all services disrupted by a June ransomware attack on pathology laboratory services provider Synnovis are finally back online. The incident triggered a national blood supply shortage and forced cancellation of thousands of medical procedures.
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