Day: October 17, 2018

    The UK will leave the European Union on 29 March 2019 and with each day that passes, No Deal Brexit is becoming as bigger threat. As time runs out, plans are now being put into action while the nation's politicians try to escape their deadlock over a Brexit deal. If there's no arrangement in time, we'll lose 70 international trade deals in a blink, shed access to EU criminal databases and have to stockpile food and medicine at the stroke of 11pm. The government has issued 104 technical notices on the practical effects of No Deal everything from driving licences to cats. A lot of the effects are on business. UK farmers face a nine-month wait for approval to export organic goods to the EU. Fishermen could be blocked from EU waters. And manufacturers fear their supply...

    There is little doubt a major life-threatening cyber-attack on the UK will take place in the near future, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. In its second annual review, published on Tuesday, the NCSC revealed it has handled more than 10 attacks a week in the last two years the majority of which it traced back to nation states in some way hostile to the UK. Since it became fully operational in 2016 it has handled 1,167 cyber incidents, including 557 in the last 12 months. The majority of the attacks were undertaken by groups of computer hackers directed, sponsored or tolerated by the governments of those countries, writes Ciaran Martin, CEO of the NCSC. These groups constitute the most acute and direct cyber threat to our national security. Non...