The UK Chancellor has warned of an increased risk of cyber attacks while laying out plans for a previously announced £1.9bn cybersecurity strategy. Philip Hammond said the country must be able to retaliate against cyber-attacks, ...
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China's top smartphone companies challenged Samsung and Apple with surging sales and revenue in 2014, vowing to scramble for a larger share in a global turf war with the top two makers. As one of the major competitors, telecom behemoth ...
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Xiaomi is hosting an event tomorrow; we knew that much already. What we didn’t know was that there would be two new smartphones taking up centre stage. Yes, Xiaomi’s latest teaser image has confirmed that the fast-rising ...
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Xiaomi’s rumoured Mi5 flagship handset will be landing on January 15, if a new teaser poster is to be believed. A Xiaomi-stamped poster has turned up on the firm’s official Weibo page, pointing toward the new date, as spotted ...
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Xiaomi, China's hippest smartphone brand, could finally be ready to make its presence felt in the West over the coming months. The company has long been referred to as the Apple of the East thanks to popular, well built, and smartly ...
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The U.K.’s intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has reportedly built an automated system to track the hotel bookings of foreign diplomats when travelling abroad for international summits or work meetings. ...
The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has called on the public to provide written and oral evidence, as it seeks to determine whether current legislation on the privacy of communications is still "fit for purpose". In July, the ...
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The chief of US spy organisation, the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith Alexander, believes that the US government needs to speed up the process of getting cyber security legislation in place in order to defend the US from attacks. ...
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Andrew Parker, Director General, MI5 The head of MI5 has said that the Prism data leaks scandal has damaged the UK’s efforts to counter terrorism. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in London last night, director ...
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Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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The former boss of the UK's MI5 security service has caused a security scare by losing her laptop at Heathrow. Stella Rimington left the computer on a luggage trolley from where it was stolen, according to the The Sun. The laptop is ...
The UK is to offer around 100 18-year-olds training in advanced IT skills to bolster the expertise of intelligence agencies in fighting cyber crime. The scheme was announced by foreign secretary William Hague during a visit to Bletchley ...
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Security researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated, multi-tiered, global financial fraud ring that has attempted fraudulent transfers of up to 1.6bn from at least 60 banks This fraud empire, discovered by researchers from security ...
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