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Seven days in the dark, scored as “moderate”: the National Risk Register after Be Ready and the NCSC review
In the space of four months the government has published three things that, read side by side, tell rather different stories about the same risk. ...
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Wilfully blind? What the NCSC Annual Review 2026 asks of the rest of us
The National Cyber Security Centre published its tenth Annual Review this morning, The State of the Cyber Nation, and I listened to the launch live. ...
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What the landline switch-off is really testing
A deadline, not a software update On 31 January 2027, Openreach switches off the old copper phone network for good. No extensions this time. Openreach ...
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Hundreds of GP Websites Gone Overnight: What Supplier Insolvency Really Looks Like
This week, up to 600 GP practices across England and Wales lost their websites after the company that provided them went into administration. Patients can ...
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The Social Media Ban Will Check Adults Too. So Who Ends Up Holding Your Passport?
This morning Ofcom published its assessment of how social media firms could check that their users are 16 or over when the under-16s ban comes ...
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Be Ready — But For What, Exactly?
A more sceptical read of the government’s new resilience campaign than the headlines gave it The instinct behind the government’s new Be Ready campaign is ...
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