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Records were exported from the management information system (MIS) of Southville Primary School in Bristol during a targeted cyberattack, according to Bristol City Council. The council has not disclosed what data was taken or how many students, parents or staff are affected. The school has notified affected parents and guardians and repor…
A vehicle belonging to school photography firm Pret-a-Portrait was broken into overnight on 6-7 October, and a camera bag containing SD memory cards was stolen. The cards may hold photographs taken at Priory School in Lewes, UK, plus images of QR code cards showing pupils' names and class names. The same equipment was used for three furth…
A Register "On Call" column recounts a reader's account (pseudonym Daniel) of joining a UK school in 2020, after the school's network had been taken offline for three months by ransomware. Recovery relied on external contractors and a months-old backup. His audit found a password policy of six letters with no complexity or expiry, and use…
This sponsored piece from Zscaler argues that UK public services have reached a cyber resilience inflection point. It cites a new Prime Minister, the scrapping of DSIT, and the redistribution of its cyber and digital functions across Whitehall. Three forces are named: policy raising expectations for boards, organizational reform (Local Go…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
The PHP security team released emergency fixes on October 21, 2026 for two critical core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, nicknamed PHP2Shell. Both are rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 and allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as the web worker account. They can also expose process memory that may hold credentials and API keys (…
