Bill Goodwin

NCSC’s Share and Defend scheme has seen BT block over a billion clicks through to malicious websites.

A solicitor who had his mobile phone containing legally privileged material seized and downloaded by police was wrongly described in a police risk assessment as being a member of Hamas. Fahad Ansari, who specialises in national security cases, argues that police unlawfully stopped and questioned him because they wrongly “equated” him acting as a lawyer for Hamas with being a member of the proscribed organisation. The case is believed to be the first targeted use of Schedule 7 powers, which allow police to stop and question people and seize their electronic devices without the need for suspicion, against a practising solicitor.

Members of the European Parliament have called for the expansion of Europol to be paused following disclosures that the police organisation ran a “Shadow IT” system containing vast amounts of data without adequate security or data protection measures in place. An investigation by Computer Weekly, Correctiv and Solomon, revealed that Europol stored petabytes of crime-related data on a network that operated for years without scrutiny from regulators despite significant privacy and security flaws. Europol’s “shadow” databases were used to analyse vast volumes of sensitive data, such as telephone records, identity documents, banking information or geolocation data and included data relating to individuals not suspected of any crime. They included a shadow system known as the “Pressure Cooker”, used for analysing open-source information on the internet, that lacked proper controls. Despite several years of monitori

Britain’s corporate cyber chiefs are too polite when they deal with innovative start-up cyber security companies. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) prefer to be non-committal, rather than tell start-up companies what is wrong with their product and why they won’t buy it. And that is not helpful for innovation. That is the view of Alastair Paterson, the CEO and co-founder of Harmonic Security, who is also the driving force behind the cyber flywheel , an initiative that aims to grow more successful cyber security start-ups in the UK.

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An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill proposes giving the government a ‘kill switch’ to close datacentres hosting AI if they pose a critical threat to UK infrastructure or national security.

A former police chief, who faces drug trafficking charges has claimed that Spanish drug investigators fabricated fictitious intelligence reports to hide their use of intercepted phone messages from the courts. Former chief inspector Óscar Sánchez Gil, who is accused of running a drug trafficking operation told a court, that it was a “common and systematic practice” for Spanish drug investigators to withhold intercepted messages from judges. The disclosures, if proved true, are likely to raise to questions over the use of intercepted phone messages from encrypted phone network Sky ECC and the FBI run encrypted phone network, Anom, in criminal prosecutions. Giving evidence by video link from prison on 19 May 2026, Sánchez Gil, former head of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) claimed it was common practice to falsify the origin of information from intercepted messages by presenting them as tip-offs from overseas law enforcement agencies.

The UK and its allies have only a “narrowing window” to stay ahead of technology threats from Russia and China, the head of the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ will warn today. Director of GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, will say that the UK needs to step-up cyber security and make it “ten times more urgent” in the face of “increasingly brazen behaviour” from adversaries. The world is facing a “new era of radical uncertainty, contested geopolitics and rapidly changing technology,” the director will say in a lecture at Bletchley Park, the war time home of the organisation that became GCHQ.

GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler confirms plans to build a national cyber defence capability using AI agents to defend critical infrastructure at ‘machine speed’.

MEPs have written to the European Commission calling for action following revelations that Europol and Frontex processed, stored and transferred personal data in ways that raise serious concerns about compliance with EU law.