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Met Police Exposes Email Addresses of 140 Alleged Al Fayed Victims in Basic CC Blunder
Scotland Yard sent a routine investigation update and accidentally revealed survivors' identities to each other, in a force already under formal enforcement action for data protection failures.
UK Police Legal Database Breach Exposes 100,000+ Officers as ICO and NCA Step In
The Police National Legal Database has confirmed contact details of officers and criminal justice staff were stolen, with the ExfilSquad group claiming 135,000 records and demanding a ransom.
Cybersecurity Then and Now: What Actually Changed (and What Didn't)
A look at how the threats facing ordinary people and the businesses they deal with have shifted over the decades, and why some of the oldest tricks still work best.
Cyber-attack on England's Department for Education exposes 607,000 records
Contact details for individuals and organisations were taken in a breach affecting two government education portals. No bank details were stolen, but the incident lands as UK school and college cyber-attacks hit record frequency.
Meta's New AI Tool Can Generate Photos of Instagram Users Without Telling Them
Meta Muse Image AI lets anyone tag a public Instagram account and produce AI-generated images using that person's face. Affected users get no notification at all.
MCP's Enterprise Overhaul Hands Security Problems to Developers
A major revision to the Model Context Protocol repositions itself as enterprise-ready — then quietly offloads the hard security work onto the teams building on top of it.
Google to Harvest UK and EU IP Addresses for Ad Targeting Starting August 2026
The same signal Google once branded a privacy red flag becomes a measurement tool, just as the ICO sharpens its consent rules.
Starmer's Device-Scan Mandate Puts Enterprise Encryption in the Crosshairs
The UK Prime Minister gave tech firms three months to build image-filtering controls into every device. Security leaders say the architecture required would gut encryption protections, create fresh exfiltration paths, and hand future governments a surveillance tool the current one insists it doesn't want.
Ultrahuman Data Leak, Ransomware Tradecraft, and a Browser That Mines Your CPU: The Week's Overlooked Stories
Three stories that didn't dominate the feed — a wearable-tech data exposure, a dissection of The Gentlemen ransomware, and Hola Browser quietly bundling a cryptominer.