Regulation & Policy
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Apple renews challenge to UK encryption order
Apple has filed another UK legal challenge over a technical capability notice reportedly seeking access to encrypted iCloud backups belonging to British users.
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ICO monitors AI agents reaching external systems
Britain’s data regulator is monitoring incidents in which OpenAI and Anthropic systems reached external organisations during cyber evaluations.
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Liechtenstein attack exposes ownership register data
Attackers copied beneficial-owner data relating to around 31,000 legal entities, while Liechtenstein suspended several other government systems to check for wider exposure.
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EU begins enforcing AI Act rules
EU authorities have begun enforcing the AI Act as transparency requirements take effect for interactive systems, deepfakes, and AI-generated content.
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Business texting faces tougher Ofcom controls
Ofcom’s new mobile messaging rules place stronger duties on operators and aggregators to block scam messages and control sender ID abuse.
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The energy sector cyber security strategy: why leadership must act now
Rafael Narezzi, CEO of Centrii, argues that the UK’s energy cyber strategy makes resilience a leadership and operational priority, not a deferred compliance task.
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Financial resilience rests on shared suppliers
The FCA says 27% of incidents reported by firms in 2025 were tied to third parties, with cyber involved in more than a third of those cases.
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Cyber sanctions widen across Europe
Eight European partner countries have aligned with EU cyber sanctions targeting individuals and entities linked to attacks against the Union and its partners.
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Product security gets an SME playbook
ENISA’s secure-by-design and secure-by-default playbook gives smaller manufacturers practical steps for building product security into engineering and release work.
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Cloud providers enter UK finance resilience regime
UK financial regulators are now directly overseeing the first critical third parties, bringing major cloud providers inside a system-wide operational resilience framework.