Royal Mail workers vote overwhelmingly to continue industrial action Royal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly to continue with a campaign of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the Communication Workers Union announced. The CWU tweeted: BREAKING: POSTAL WORKERS HAVE MADE HISTORY CWU members in Royal …
Read More »LockBit leaks Royal Mail negotiations log, stolen data remains hidden
LockBit has leaked the transcript of its negotiations with Royal Mail, revealing a ransom demand of over A$114 million. The chat log was leaked only days after the latest payment deadline of February 14. Whilst Royal Mail didn’t pay, the attackers are yet to post the alleged stolen data. The …
Read More »Royal Mail ‘facing $80m ransom bid’
A Royal Mail flag flies near a sorting office in west London, Britain, Nov 24, 2022. [Photo/Agencies] The United Kingdom’s postal service, Royal Mail International, has rejected a huge ransom demand from a gang of hackers, according to a leaked cache of online chats. The Lockbit hacker group claims it …
Read More »Royal Mail Refused ‘Absurd’ LockBit Extortion Demand
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific Hackers Demanded $80 Million in Ransom Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 15, 2023 Negotiations between the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service gang and Royal Mail appear to have broken down earlier this month, shortly after a postal representative called …
Read More »The first national cyber director’s last day is today
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Read More »Robodebt royal commission extended by two months – Mandurah Mail
The royal commission examining the unlawful robodebt scheme has been extended by a further two months. The extension… Source link
Read More »Will Royal Mail strike again? What we know about more strikes and why this week’s walkouts were cancelled
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is balloting its members at Royal Mail over further strike action after planned walkouts in February were called off. Royal Mail workers staged 18 days of national strikes in 2022 in a dispute over pay and working conditions, causing disruption over key periods including Christmas …
Read More »What Meghan Markle wrote about ‘Princess Kate’s wedding’ before she met Prince Harry
A resurfaced blog post from Meghan Markle’s now-defunct website The Tig reveals her true feelings about royal princesses before she met Prince Harry – and they’re not altogether flattering. The entry from 2014, which was written by Meghan during her time on Suits, revealed that she dreamt of being a …
Read More »ESXiArgs ransomware fights back to defeat US recovery script • The Register
That didn’t take long. A week after the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI released a recovery script to help victims of the widespread ESXiArgs ransomware attacks recover infected systems, an updated variant of the malware aimed at vulnerable VMware ESXi virtual machines can’t be remediated with …
Read More »Harry Potter coin launched by the Royal Mint featuring Dumbledore
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK in 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The Dumbledore collectable coin is part of a wider collection celebrating the 25th anniversary. It is the first coin to feature the King’s portrait on the “heads” side, while two other coins in the collection …
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