About: John Underwood

Original article from The Guardian The latest incident to emerge – which happened in 2013 – is probably distinct from the breach of 500m user accounts in 2014 Yahoo said on Wednesday it had discovered another major cyber attack, saying data from more than 1bn user accounts was compromised in August 2013, making it the…

Original article from The Guardian One in 10 people in England and Wales have been victims of cybercrime in past year, first official figures show. Police chiefs have called for a national campaign against online fraud and other cybercrime on the scale of last century’s seatbelt and drink-driving campaigns in the wake of figures showing that…

Original article by Patrick Scott, Data Journalist for The Telegraph Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a new five-year £1.9 billion scheme to help prevent cyber-crime in the UK. The National Cyber Security Strategy is to be used to develop a strategy for tackling hackers and the problems they pose to national security as well as to the…