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> A new cybersecurity and ­resilience bill will make it mandatory to report more incidents. The bill’s slow progress is frustrating security experts, according to Jamie MacColl, a senior research fellow at Rusi. However, ministers have been reluctant to impose more regulation on businesses, but having “major cybersecurity incidents is not good for economic growth,” he said.

A minister's bill is less effective than a Ukrainian soldier's bullet.

Bad news, folks: the erudite hackers have added an apostrophe to Harrod's logo
Great, that'll be another intelligence review Monday morning.

Can someone give the kids a ping pong table or something so i can eat my breakfast in peace?

It's almost like they earned enough from the data that the risk was worth it
From a brief review, it looks like the underlying platform they use is https://www.scayle.com/ (though I'm not sure its the one that was attacked) its just the one I found while looking at their site.
From the article, it sounds like this was earlier in the year, but they're only revealing it now? Isn't that way beyond the deadline for such things?
How much time before a large bank will be held hostage by such an attack?
I know very little about cyber security in the wild - little Bobby Tables is about my level.

Are these hacks unavoidable, or are they indicative of shoddy IT on the victim's side? There has been a sleugh of cyberattacks recently and I don't know what to make of it.

If it's kind of like getting burgled - get good home security but a determined burglar will get in anyway - then it's a systemic problem we have to somehow tackle as a society. And if it's shoddy workmanship, again, it would appear so widespread that we have to do something about it.

I'm not passing judgment, just trying to understand.