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Significant outages in critical infrastructure services caused by cyberattacks are thankfully very rare. That’s why incidents such as Colonial Pipeline achieve significant press and media attention and top-level political engagement: they have rarity value. Computer code on a screen with a skull representing a computer virus / malware attack. getty …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

Royal Mail has announced it will begin to move “limited volumes” of export parcels following a cyber incident. The company said it was trialling an “operational workaround” for delivering parcels. However, it continues to urge customers not to submit any new export parcels into the network. Last Wednesday, Royal Mail …

Royal Mail has apologised to customers after they were left scratching their heads over how long they have to use up their old stamps before they are no longer valid. In February last year, Royal Mail announced it was phasing out everyday – or Definitive – stamps that feature a …

The Royal Mail announced that they would be scrapping every day stamps this year. The change will see traditional stamps – with the late-Queen’s head on them – replaced with the new barcoded versions. And as the stamp deadline approaches, people should be reminded that there is an extension in …

R oyal Mail has started moving “limited volumes” of export parcels following the recent cyber incident. The company said it was trialling “operational workarounds” but continued to ask customers not to submit any new export parcels into the network. A statement said: “Our initial focus will be to clear mail …

Consumer expert Martin Lewis has made an important clarification regarding the deadline to use or swap old stamps, as you may have more time to do so than you might think. While the Royal Mail told Martin Lewis’ website MoneySavingExpert that January 2023 was still the deadline, they added that …

Royal Mail has resumed international deliveries for the first time following a cyber attack that crippled the postal service’s computer systems. The company said it had finally begun sending letters and parcels abroad again, albeit in limited volumes, after a full week of paralysis. Critical systems at Royal Mail’s international …