The website – titled “Very English Coop d’Etat” – says it has published private emails from former British spymaster Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, pro-Brexit historian Robert Toombs, and other supporters of Britain’s divorce from the EU, which was finalized in January 2020.
The site contends that they are part of a group of hardline pro-Brexit figures secretly calling the shots in the United Kingdom.
Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the emails, but two victims of the leak on Wednesday confirmed that they had been targeted by hackers and blamed the Russian government.
See Digital Security by Design at Infosecurity Europe 2022!
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In the News
The UK government-backed Digital Security by Design (DSbD) initiative aims to secure underlying computer hardware, preventing most vulnerabilities from ever occurring. James Coker from Infosecurity Magazine spoke to John Goodacre, DSbD challenge director and Professor of Computer Architectures at The University of Manchester, Andrew Elliot, deputy director, cyber security innovation and skills at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Richard Grisenthwaite, SVP chief architect and fellow at Arm, to investigate how this ambitious plan works and whether it can have the desired impact. You can read the full feature here.
