The Royal Mail is urging people to swap their stamps ahead of an impending deadline. The firm has confirmed old stamps that feature the profile of Her Late Majesty The Queen on a plain coloured background without a barcode will no longer be valid. The stamps with the Queen on …
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“We’ve confirmed that we’ve had a cyberattack,” Thompson told lawmakers in a hearing with the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee on Tuesday. Royal Mail has seen no evidence of a data breach so far, but has notified the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which oversees data privacy. The …
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Image: Centrica The ‘Optimise Prime’ project was first launched in 2019 by a consortium spearheaded by UK Power Networks (UKPN) and Hitachi Europe. The first EVs trialled under the project then hit the road in 2021. The aim of the project was to identify, and work to overcome, the common …
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Barcodes are being added to all Royal Mail stamps, bringing greater security and allowing customers access to interactive content. © Provided by The i The Royal Mail has set up a swap scheme for old stamps (Photo: Getty Images) However, this means that the current, barcode-free stamps are being rendered …
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Nearly 35,000 Paypal users are being contacted after the company suffered a major data breach. Unlike the recent high-profile ransomware attacks on organizations like The Guardian newspaper and the UK’s Royal Mail, the Paypal attack was significantly more mechanistic in nature. It appears to have been an automated attack, with …
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Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific UK Postal Service Testing Workarounds to Tackle Ransomware-Induced Package Backlog Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 19, 2023 A Royal Mail van in Scotland (Image: Mathew Schwartz for Information Security Media Group) The British postal service says it is resorting to workarounds …
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Royal Mail was hit with a sudden cyber attack last month that stopped it from being able to send parcels overseas (Picture: EPA) Royal Mail has started moving ‘limited volumes’ of export parcels following a cyber attack in January. The company said it was trialling ‘operational workarounds’ but continued to ask customers …
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DESPITE taking record-breaking profits of £758 million in 2021 and paying £547m to shareholders, Royal Mail’s incompetent management wants to cut services and tens of thousands of jobs in their efforts to run down and asset-strip our postal service and diminish the value of postal workers’ jobs. As Ian Lavery …
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Royal Mail is updating stamps by adding barcodes, meaning existing stamps that do not have them will soon become obsolete. The move allows the company to add security features, while people will also be able to watch and share videos by scanning the barcodes in the Royal Mail app. Here’s …
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SCAM WARNING: Royal Mail has released a statement warning people of the dangers of the authentic looking scam (Photo by Rui Vieira/PA Wire) Reporting by Katie Elliott Royal Mail has warned customers to “be vigilant” after a spike in scam texts. The scam is set up so the fraudulent messages …
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