Romance fraudster who posed as a woman and used thousands he conned out of victim to pay for the upkeep of his horse escapes jail
Adam Mowle, 34, met his male victim on dating app Tinder after setting up a fake account, pretending to be a woman named Jenna Leigh Smith.
Nigerian predator and his accomplice who raped schoolgirl, 15, after plying her with alcohol and drugs are jailed for total of 21 years
Fred Akinsanya, 34, and 29-year-old Daniel Raji targeted their victim after buying her drinks at Irish pub Paddy's Yard in Brixton, south London.
Site of 'Jesus' crucifixion' forced to shut for Holy Week in unprecedented move tied to biblical prophecies of the Antichrist
The site, believed to be where Jesus was crucified and buried, has been closed to the public during Holy Week, when thousands typically gather to worship.
This Essex Marks and Spencer branch is relaunching tomorrow after a big renovation
The M&S food store will re-launch at Westway Clock Tower Retail Park, in Chelmsford, at 9am, tomorrow.
This Essex Marks and Spencer branch is relaunching tomorrow after a big renovation
The M&S food store will re-launch at Westway Clock Tower Retail Park, in Chelmsford, at 9am, tomorrow.
Moment armed robber pleads 'get me out of here' after shop worker trapped him behind shutters mid-raid
Jordan Peebles, 32, from Coventry, West Midlands, burst into the newsagents (pictured) in the city's Riley Square wielding a large kitchen knife last Christmas Eve.
I tried Greater Anglia's new contactless feature but one problem means I can’t recommend it to everyone
It might seem a trivial matter, but it's still an inconvenience
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud 'a Pile of Shit', Yet Approved It Anyway
ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, yearslong concerns about Microsoft's GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it anyway because the product was already deeply embedded across government. As one member of the team put it: "The package is a pile of shit." From the report: In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant's "lack of proper detailed security documentation" left reviewers with a "lack of confidence in assessing the system's overall security posture," according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain. Given that and other unknowns, government experts couldn't vouch for the technology's security.
Such judgments would be damning for any company seeking to sell its wares to the U.S. government, but it should have been particularly devastating for Microsoft. The tech giant's products had been at the heart of two major cybersecurity attacks against the U.S. in three years. In one, Russian hackers exploited a weakness to steal sensitive data from a number of federal agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration. In the other, Chinese hackers infiltrated the email accounts of a Cabinet member and other senior government officials. The federal government could be further exposed if it couldn't verify the cybersecurity of Microsoft's Government Community Cloud High, a suite of cloud-based services intended to safeguard some of the nation's most sensitive information.
Yet, in a highly unusual move that still reverberates across Washington, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, authorized the product anyway, bestowing what amounts to the federal government's cybersecurity seal of approval. FedRAMP's ruling -- which included a kind of "buyer beware" notice to any federal agency considering GCC High -- helped Microsoft expand a government business empire worth billions of dollars. "BOOM SHAKA LAKA," Richard Wakeman, one of the company's chief security architects, boasted in an online forum, celebrating the milestone with a meme of Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
It was not the type of outcome that federal policymakers envisioned a decade and a half ago when they embraced the cloud revolution and created FedRAMP to help safeguard the government's cybersecurity. The program's layers of review, which included an assessment by outside experts, were supposed to ensure that service providers like Microsoft could be entrusted with the government's secrets. But ProPublica's investigation -- drawn from internal FedRAMP memos, logs, emails, meeting minutes, and interviews with seven former and current government employees and contractors -- found breakdowns at every juncture of that process. It also found a remarkable deference to Microsoft, even as the company's products and practices were central to two of the most damaging cyberattacks ever carried out against the government.
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'Heartless' couple left reclusive adult daughter to starve and die in 'appalling' squalor, court hears
Steffie Davies, 32, was found emaciated in a sodden and soiled bed, with her skeletal body in a 'terrible' state of decomposition after her mother, Bernita Davies, 60, dialled 999.
Sting and Trudie Styler's weird and wonderful life: Couple's new £80k bathtub is the latest addition to their kooky world involving tantric sex, the 'perceptual crunch' fitness move and homemade wine named after his songs
They're one of the rare A-Lister couples whose relationship has stood the test of time - and Sting and Trudie Styler's secrets to a longstanding romance are far from conventional.
Essex area with 1,000 years of history but you've probably never heard of
The unassuming hamlet was once Europe's largest excavation site with finds spanning from Neolithic to Medieval times
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Essex residents urged to connect to Cockney roots
The Modern Cockney Festival is looking for Essex residents with Cockney heritage to connect to their roots.
Essex residents urged to connect to Cockney roots
The Modern Cockney Festival is looking for Essex residents with Cockney heritage to connect to their roots.
'I wish we had voted to Remain': Rachel Reeves expresses regret at UK quitting the EU as she doubles down on Labour's bid for closer ties - having once vowed to 'make Brexit work'
The Chancellor acknowledged 'we can't go back in time' on reversing the 2016 EU referendum result, but doubled down on her bid to forge closer ties with Brussels.
Furious Australian traveler filmed yanking TSA agent's hair at LAX airport after he couldn't find his bag
Thomas Jesse Bingham, 35, was arrested on Monday after tussling with a TSA agent over his missing bag.
Starmer 'running scared' of Labour Left and Angela Rayner as No10 refuses to say tough immigration plans will go ahead
Keir Starmer sparked speculation that he could be on the verge of yet another U-turn in the wake of a bruising attack from Angela Rayner.
Major European tourist destination launches app to speed up border controls in preparation for Entry/Exit System airport chaos
A new app launched by the European Union, called Travel to Europe, has been introduced to help tackle long queues due to the new Entry/Exit System.
Police officer who led Nottingham stabbings investigation apologises to victims' families over triple killer's drugs-test blunder in custody
Police failed to test triple killer Valdo Calocane for drugs. If substances had been detected, it may have negated his defence of diminished responsibility over the Nottingham killings in 2023.
How your ACCENT can hinder your job prospects: Study reveals how people with foreign accents are seen as less competent
It's something that's fixed from roughly the age of 14. But your accent could be hindering your job prospects, according to a new study.