Tag: Politics
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Section 702: The Future of the Biggest US Spy Program Hangs in the Balance
The US Congress will this week decide the fate of Section 702, a major surveillance program that will soon expire if lawmakers do not act. …
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China cyber-attacks: this growing threat to UK security will not go away
In March last year an integrated review of the UK’s defence and foreign policy said it would protect the country’s “democratic …
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Russian Star Blizzard hackers linked to efforts to hamper war crimes investigation
Russia’s cyberwar against the west, which accelerated after its 2014 annexation of Crimea, has been executed by a constellation of elite …
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Russian spies targeting MPs, media and civil society with cyber-hacking, says minister – video
Leo Docherty, a Foreign Office minister working under David Cameron, has told parliament that the Russian federal security service, FSB, …
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Russian spies targeting UK MPs and media with ‘cyber interference’
The Russian Federal Security Service has used “cyber interference” to target MPs, journalists and others as part of attempts to …
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No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control
Concerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of …
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No 10 increasingly concerned AI could be used to create bioweapons
Concerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of …
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Electoral Commission failed cybersecurity test in same year as hack
“We are always working to improve our cybersecurity and systems. We draw on the expertise of the National Cyber Security Centre – as …
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The Guardian view on the electoral commission hack: democracy needs stronger safeguards | Editorial
At some point after August 2021, hackers gained access to the names and addresses of everyone who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. …
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MPs fiddled with voter ID as electoral data security burned
It turns out that while Conservative ministers were spending hours of parliamentary time in 2021-22 introducing requirements for voters to …
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Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack, says Electoral Commission
The watchdog apologised for the security breach in which the names and addresses of millions of voters were accessible to hackers as far …
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UK electoral registers hacked by ‘hostile actors’, elections watchdog reveals
The Electoral Commission revealed it had been hacked but was “not able to know conclusively” what information had been accessed and …
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