Dan Milmo

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Sarah Butler |Dan Milmo

‘It’s easier to list the things that work than the things that don’t’, said one worker, but customers are impressed by staff resilience and analysts believe the retailer will bounce back. Unusual activity on tech systems over the Easter weekend was the first sign of a sustained cyberattack on Marks & Spencer, which is costing the retailer millions of pounds a day. The group is the UK’s biggest clothing retailer, accounting for a third of underwear sales alongside food and homewares.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Eleni Courea |Dan Milmo

Ministers are rethinking changes to copyright law before a vote in parliament next week, in a further concession to artists, the Guardian has learned. A source close to Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, said proposals to introduce an opt-out system of copyright rules was no longer his preferred option but one of several being given consideration.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sarah Butler |Dan Milmo

Unusual activity on tech systems over the Easter weekend was the first sign of a sustained cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer, which is costing the retailer millions of pounds a day. The group, the UK’s biggest clothing retailer which accounts for a third of underwear sales alongside food and homewares, has now been forced to stop taking online orders for more than a week – with little hope of rebooting them in the short term.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo

TikTok has been fined €530m (£452m) by an Irish watchdog over a failure to protect some European user data from being used by the Chinese government. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) regulates TikTok across the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes all 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo

If there is one noticeable difference between some members of the Scattered Spider hacking community and their ransomware peers, it will be the accent. Scattered Spider has been linked to a cyber-attack on UK retailer Marks & Spencer. But unlike other ransomware assailants, its constituents appear to be native English speakers and are not from Russia or former Soviet states.