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• Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments

  14-01-2025 07:00
  
  Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers.In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold IT systems hostage. Continue reading...
  
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• Philby had to choose ‘between suicide and prosecution’ before 1963 defection

  14-01-2025 01:01
  
  Files released by National Archives reveal moment double agent was confronted by MI6 officer Nicholas ElliotCambridge spy Kim Philby said his choice was “between suicide and prosecution” in a confession shortly before the high-ranking M16 double agent fled on a Russian steamer in 1963, according to previously secret documents.Philby, the “third man” in the Cambridge Five ring, was confronted by his friend, the MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott, who had been sent by the British
  
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