By: Joe Fay Simon Thompson, CEO of the U.K.’s Royal Mail, has confirmed in a session with MPs that the crippling of its ability to send parcels and letters abroad was down to a “cyberattack” and that it was “ongoing”. Thompson said that investigations into the attack on the U.K. postal operator – one of the most high-profile attacks on the country’s critical infrastructure to date – were continuing, but so far there was no evidence that personal data of customers had been compromised. The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have been investigating the…
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South Carolina tops women’s AP Top 25; Ohio State tumbles
South Carolina, Stanford and LSU are the top teams in the latest women’s AP Top 25 college basketball rankings.
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Spain: Machete attacker jailed until trial for terrorism
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What’s behind the Pakistani Taliban’s deadly insurgency?
The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
What’s behind the Pakistani Taliban’s insurgency?
When a suicide bomber struck a mosque inside a police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar, suspicion immediately fell on the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which has waged an insurgency in the country for…
Fears grow for Michigan schoolgirl Adriana Davidson who vanished three days ago
‘I knew right away she didn’t run away. The red flag for me was the phone,’ brother says