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Labour Party targeted by cyber attack on its digital platforms

Homeland November 13, 2019

The Labour Party has confirmed that it has been the subject of a cyber attack against its digital platforms. The attack, which took place on Monday, has been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) but has not managed breach any of Labour’s data due to its “robust” security system, ...

Optimising data for mission critical confidence

November 8, 2019

Brigham Bechtel, Chief Strategy Officer for Defence and Intelligence at MarkLogic writes for Defence Online as we continue our cyber focus for November. With the emergence of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing, new questions are rising about the role of the OODA Loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act), developed ...

Banks warned of increasing cyber threat by Bank of England

Homeland June 19, 2018

The Bank of England has warned banks they need to be better prepared for the increasing threat of cyber attacks and technology failure. In his speech at the 20th Annual Operational Risk Europe conference in London, Lyndon Nelson, deputy CEO & Executive Director of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority ...

MEPs call for stronger cyber defence as threats increase

Homeland June 18, 2018

The European Parliament has voted on a resolution to establish a more robust defence in the face of increasing malicious cyber attacks. The cyber defence resolution, passed by 476 votes to 151, with 36 abstentions, recognised that Russia, China and North Korea, in addition to non-state actors, had conducted malicious cyber attacks ...