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Cyber Security

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    Germany blames China for ‘serious’ cyber attack

    Berlin says Beijing behind 2021 hack on precision mapping agency

    Chinese president Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    UK election body failed to protect voter data before Chinese cyber attack, says watchdog

    ‘Basic steps’ including updating passwords were missed before 2021 hack, finds Information Commissioner

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  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    InterviewIndian politics & policy
    India expands airport facial recognition amid surveillance fears

    Digital initiative chief claims technology can halve queueing times and pledges transparency on personal data

    A passenger uses a facial recognition counter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad in 2019
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Cyber attacks on shipping rise amid geopolitical tensions

    State-backed hackers present a fresh threat to an industry that has long faced security concerns

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    ExplainerParis Olympics
    The Paris Olympics sabotage attack: what we know so far

    Targeted attacks hit strategic rail junctions, raising concerns about a range of threats ahead of opening ceremony

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    European Central Bank
    ECB finds ‘shortcomings’ in banks’ ability to cope with cyber attacks

    First review of lenders’ capacity to withstand breaches comes amid rise in hacks

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  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    UK science minister pledges cyber security boost for crucial data troves

    Patrick Vallance calls for balanced approach to maintain access for groundbreaking research

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  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    #techAsia
    Chip chemicals and cyber crime crackdowns Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A technician, surrounded by glass containers filled with chemicals, works in the liquid chemicals laboratory at the Solvay SA plant in Herten, Netherlands
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    CrowdStrike Inc
    CrowdStrike to implement new checks to avoid another global IT outage

    Cyber security group will improve testing and stagger updates to reduce risk of computers being hit all at once

    An Amtrak employee with a ‘blue screen of death’ error message on a computer monitor in the background
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Lessons from the global IT outage

    Businesses and governments need to mitigate against single points of failure

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  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Insurance
    Insurers’ losses from global IT outage could reach billions

    Disruption to companies’ systems estimated to be most significant loss event since NotPetya malware attacks of 2017

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  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Cyber watchdogs warn on phishing scams as IT outage fallout lingers

    Airlines and healthcare services are among the hardest hit by the faulty CrowdStrike update

    Travellers were stuck at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport on Saturday as a result of the IT outage
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Data protection
    NHS hack prompts tougher UK cyber security rules for private providers

    Proposed legislation aims to better protect data ‘supply chains’ to essential public services

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  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Technology sector
    Global IT outage could take weeks to resolve, experts warn

    Botched update by security software maker CrowdStrike has left companies struggling to recover

    Users of CrowdStrike’s security software saw the ‘blue screen of death’ when they tried to turn on their Windows computers on Friday
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Digital paralysis shows the dangers of e-globalisation

    Rather than anything more malicious, the trigger for the cyber failure seems to have been a prosaic software update

    Travelers walk past a monitor displaying a blue error screen inside an airport terminal
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    ExplainerMicrosoft Corp
    What caused the huge global IT outage?

    Minor update sparks havoc among businesses that use equipment running Windows

    Montage of photos of a woman passenger, the CrowdStrike logo and a man looking at a monitor
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    LexCrowdStrike Inc
    It’s not just CrowdStrike - the cyber sector is vulnerable Premium content

    CrowdStrike’s stock looks vulnerable but companies with a similar business model may also be affected

    A blue screen for an inaccessible website on a laptop following reports of a global outage
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Alphabet Inc
    Google parent in talks to buy cyber security start-up Wiz for $23bn

    Acquisition of cloud specialist would be largest in Alphabet’s history

    The Wiz logo displayed on a phone screen
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    AT&T Inc
    AT&T data on ‘nearly all’ wireless customers accessed in hack

    US telecoms group delayed disclosure under public safety exemption to SEC rules

    An AT&T logo
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    German economy
    Germany orders ban on Chinese companies from its 5G network

    German telecoms groups to remove Huawei and ZTE components by 2029

    Huawei and ZTE logos on a smartphone
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    Australia accuses China-backed hackers of breaching government networks

    US, UK, Germany and Japan back report alleging APT40 conducted ‘malicious’ cyber espionage activities

    File photo illustration shows a map of China through a magnifying glass on a computer screen
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    FT Tech for Growth Forum
    Technology and cyber crime: how to keep out the bad guys

    Maintaining strict security protocols and monitoring your firm’s digital activity can improve your chances of fending off an attack

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    UK politics
    Labour suspends party member in connection with sexting scandal

    Move by main opposition party comes after Metropolitan police confirms arrest of man on suspicion of harassment

    The Houses of Parliament
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Ransomware
    NHS England probes data leak after cyber attack on blood-test provider

    Health service investigates ransomware hit to determine content of published files

    The entrance to the hospital with parked cars and ambulances in front
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Hackers ‘jailbreak’ powerful AI models in global effort to highlight flaws

    Experts join forces in search for vulnerabilities in large language models made by OpenAI, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI

    A hooded figure sits at a laptop with the logos of four AI companies in the background
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