Day: July 31, 2018

    Theresa May will publish scores of documents to prepare businesses and the public for a no-deal Brexit later in the summer but has denied putting the army on standby. No 10 rejected a report that soldiers are being lined up to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages, insisting: There are no plans to involve the army in this. Downing Street instead revealed around 70 technical notices with advice to companies and consumers if the UK crashes out of the EU with no agreement would be issued in two sets in August and September. The prime minister’s spokesman rejected claims that plans to drip feed details of the preparations had been dropped because of fears it would scare voters too much. But he said: These notices will be published in August and Se...

    Russian hackers have attacked a Swiss lab that analysed Novichok nerve agent samples from the Salisbury, according to local media. The state-run Spiez laboratory near Bern was targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government ahead of a conference of chemical and biological warfare experts in September, the mass-market Swiss newspaper Blick reported. After Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury in March, the Swiss laboratory confirmed the British finding that they had fallen victim to the Soviet-developed military-grade nerve agent Novichok. Having created a fake email address to mimic the Spiez lab, the perpetrators sent a Word document to conference participants with malware embedded inside of it, the Federal Office for...

    Dixons Carphone says a data breach in 2017 was worse than originally thought and it affected 10 million customers. The firm also admitted that it has uncovered evidence that some of the data that was accessed may have been taken from its systems. It has assured customers that pin codes, card verification values and authentication data that could be used to make purchases have not been accessed and there is no evidence any fraud has resulted. The huge breach first came to light in June when Dixons Carphone revealed hackers had accessed 5.9 million payment cards used at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, and 1.2 million personal data records. Biggest data breaches of the last 20 years. It meant that personal information belonging to millions of customers including t...