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Cyber Security

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    News in-depthRetail sector
    UK retailers under attack: why hackers hit household names

    M&S, the Co-op and Harrods have all been targeted by cyber criminals in recent days

    M&S was the first household name to be targeted by cyber criminals, days before the Co-op and Harrods were forced to shut down some IT systems
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Special Report
    Risk Management: Financial Institutions

    Trump’s market mayhem threatens to upend world order; policymakers fret over rising sovereign debt; and increasing reliance on complex technology leaves banks vulnerable

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, April 3, 2025
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Special ReportRisk Management: Financial Institutions
    Increasing reliance on complex technology leaves banks vulnerable

    In the race to modernise many financial institutions remain hamstrung by ‘technical debt’

    Sunlight reflects off the glass facade of the Barclays skyscraper as dark clouds gather in the background
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Harrods Ltd
    Harrods is latest UK retailer to suffer cyber attack

    Trio of incidents shows heightened security risks for groups with large customer databases

    Members of the public walk past the Harrods store in Knightsbridge, London
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Marks & Spencer Group PLC
    M&S cyber crisis wipes almost £700mn off retailer’s valuation

    FTSE 100 company tells hundreds of workers to stay at home and admits it has no idea when operations will recover

    Shoppers pass a branch of Marks and Spencer in Bath
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    EU defence
    Tech groups pivot to defence in neutral Ireland as EU re-arms

    Radar, AI and subsea surveillance are big growth areas for security technology with dual uses

    A Royal Navy frigate shadowed Russian reconnaissance vessel Yantar before it moved into Irish waters in January
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    InterviewThe CEO
    Darktrace CEO: ‘We didn’t have the valuation we knew we could get’

    Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company’s operations and cast off the shadow of early backer Mike Lynch

    Jill Popelka at the Darktrace office overlooking the river Thames in London
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Quantum technologies
    Secure ‘quantum messages’ sent over telecoms network in breakthrough

    Researchers harness quantum mechanics to create communications system that can avoid being hacked

    A digital illustration depicting coherent quantum communications across a national telecom infrastructure
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK insurance industry
    RSA brand to disappear from UK insurance sector

    Change comes four years after Intact Financial Corporation paid £3bn to take over its British and Canadian operations

    The BSA company logo
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    PwC
    PwC China plans to spin off cyber security arm

    Partner-led buyout would improve liquidity and mark strategic pivot away from consulting

    Exterior of the PwC building in Shanghai, with several people walking past the entrance and some wearing masks. The building's signage includes the PwC logo and its Chinese name
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    UK crime
    London mayor axes cyber crime victim support line

    Decision triggers backlash among campaigners as violence against women and girls rises in capital

    Sadiq Khan
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    EU defence
    EU plans to strengthen police powers to tackle foreign threats

    Russia’s links with criminal networks among the targets of new proposals to enhance law enforcement

    An officer from the EU’s Frontex border agency carries out a patrol on the Bulgaria-Serbia border
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Jane Harman
    Signal fiasco should remind us that complacency invites catastrophe

    The risk of a US intelligence breakdown is even more serious than this week’s error suggests

    Smoke Pours From The World Trade Center After Being Hit By Two Planes on September 11, 2001
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The amateurism of the Trump White House

    ‘Signalgate’ will send shockwaves through the US security apparatus and foreign allies

    US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with vice-president JD Vance, defence secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    UK insurance industry
    Threat of state-sponsored cyber attacks could make UK terror insurer ‘obsolete’, warns Pool Re chief

    Sector is unprepared to handle growing sources of systemic risk, says Tom Clementi

    Tom Clementi in Pool Re’s offices in London, England in March 2025
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    News in-depthWiz
    ‘An insane offer’: the cyber start-up founder who squeezed another $9bn from Google

    Wiz chief executive Assaf Rappaport agrees higher sale price after turning down $23bn offer last summer

    Montage of Assaf Rappaport in front of a Wiz logo
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    UK cyber security watchdog warns on future risk of quantum computer hacking

    National Cyber Security Centre urges businesses to migrate to stronger encryption methods by 2035

    The National Cyber Security Centre in London
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Meredith Whittaker
    The war on encryption is dangerous

    Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft

    Cropped hand of a woman using a mobile phone and laptop
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Google’s $32bn test of Trump’s antitrust stance Premium content

    Plus, Warren Buffett bulks up on Japanese conglomerates and Saudi Arabia reins in its consultant spending

    A Google logo sign
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Alphabet Inc
    Alphabet agrees to buy cyber security group Wiz for $32bn

    All-cash deal is Google parent’s biggest acquisition in its history

    Person holding cellphone with webpage of US cloud security company Wiz Inc on screen in front of logo
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Cyber warfare
    Criminals use AI in ‘proxy’ attacks for hostile powers, warns Europol

    EU police agency says organised crime rings use artificial intelligence to amplify their ‘speed, reach, and sophistication’

    A woman walks by a projection prior to a media conference to present the findings of Europol’s report on the most threatening criminal networks in the European Union
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    US-China relations
    US communications regulator to create council to counter China tech threats

    Move comes as FCC’s remit has broadened in face of hostile acts by Beijing

    Brendan Carr
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    US-China relations
    US charges 12 Chinese nationals with hacking American agencies for Beijing

    Justice department said suspects were involved in extensive ‘hacker-for-hire ecosystem’

    Flag flies outside the US justice department’s headquarters
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ order

    iPhone maker files complaint to Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data

    A man uses an iPhone
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    LexManagement consulting
    Doge snaps at the ankles of government consultants Premium content

    After wielding a chainsaw to the federal budget, managing consulting contracts may be next on the chopping block

    A poster of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency Caucus being carried to a news conference on Capitol Hill, Washington, US
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