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Britain's cyber-defence centre has thwarted more than one million cases of suspected payment card fraud in the last year, its annual review reveals.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said a dedicated anti-fraud effort stopped the cards being abused.

It said it had stopped more than 1,800 cyber-attacks aimed at UK

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A trio of influencers have had Instagram posts touting diet products banned by the UK's ad regulator.

TV stars Katie Price and Lauren Goodger promoted a BoomBod

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The travel details of large numbers of US government and military personnel have been exposed in a data leak, a security company says.

VPNMentor said 179GB of data had been

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A charity has accused one of the world's biggest content delivery networks of inadvertently protecting sites that host images of child abuse.

Cloudflare helps websites deliver content faster but some of its clients are known to host illegal content.

The company insists it is powerless because it does not actually host

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Plans have been submitted to develop part of Bletchley Park into a technology school for 1,000 students.

Milton Keynes College is seeking council approval for the £26m development of listed

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Video-sharing app TikTok is being used by Islamic State militants to spread propaganda to a younger audience, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Supporters reportedly shared videos showing IS fighters with guns and corpses being paraded through streets.

Some of the videos, posted in recent weeks, are said to have

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