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UK scraps national digital ID scheme but continues GOV.UK One Login, digital wallet and 80+ credential programmes

The UK government has scrapped its national digital ID scheme, but officials told the Public Accounts Committee on 20 October 2026 that the underlying identity infrastructure remains in development. Work continues on GOV.UK One Login, the Gov Wallet and the digital identity trust framework, with more than 80 document types earmarked for t…

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UK FCA to require financial firms to report significant AI failures and near-misses as agentic AI adoption grows

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says existing major-incident reporting rules must extend to significant AI failures and near-misses as financial firms adopt more autonomous, agentic systems. Speaking at Bloomberg's UK Policy Series, FCA chief data, information and intelligence officer Jessica Rusu warned that poorly governed AI c…

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Zscaler partner content: UK public sector cyber resilience becomes a board-level priority amid DSIT scrapping and policy change

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…

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ICANN tests SAML authentication for law enforcement urgent requests to non-public WHOIS data via RDRS

ICANN has begun testing authentication schemes that would let law enforcement agencies file urgent requests for non-public WHOIS data when facing imminent threats to life, serious bodily injury, critical infrastructure or child exploitation. The work is led by the Input Group on Law Enforcement Agency Authentication Mechanisms, which repo…

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UK government undecided on AI safeguards in Cyber Security and Resilience Bill despite minister's pledge to legislate

UK officials have not committed to AI-specific measures in the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, even though AI minister Kanishka Narayan pledged to "legislate wherever necessary". Alexandra Jones of the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade told MPs that the government is "looking at" …

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Historic US Air Force practice of using locally bought USB drives across classified systems exposed military to Agent.BTZ-style malware

In a PWNED column, SolarWinds CISO Justin Henkel, a former US Air Force IT security specialist, recounts that in the early 2000s pilots and mission planners moved mission data between unclassified and classified systems using CDs and later USB thumb drives. Personnel often bought the drives from local vendors, for example in Kabul, rather…

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UK school reader anecdote: weak six-character passwords and shared 'letmein' credential persisted after ransomware attack

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…