Why Has The UK Had So Many Cyber Attacks Recently?
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, serious cyber attacks are on the rise and the government is telling businesses to make pen and paper plans to help them prepare. Adam is joined by BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy and Emily Taylor, CEO of Oxford Information Labs and co-founder of the Global Signal Exchange, to discuss why more serious attacks are on the rise and what else can be done.
Plus, Chris and Adam are reunited to talk about the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as well as the controversial collapse of the case against two men accused of spying for China.
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| 0:27.9 | Hello. Now, if you shop at Marks & Spencers or the co-op, you probably experienced it. |
| 0:31.9 | And if you watch and listen to the news, you heard about it. The big cyber attacks on UK retailers this year. |
| 0:38.4 | And then they were joined recently by Jaguar Land Rover, the car manufacturer. |
| 0:43.8 | But today there's a warning that there are an increasing number of major cyber attacks on the UK. |
| 0:49.5 | So that's what we're going to talk about in the first half of this episode of Newscast. |
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| 1:20.1 | And according to the government's cyber watchdog, |
| 1:22.6 | the National Cybersecurity Center, |
| 1:24.9 | which is a branch of GCHQ, |
| 1:26.3 | there are four major cyber attacks on the UK |
| 1:30.1 | every single week. And that is a big increase on this time last year. And the reason they're |
| 1:36.4 | saying it is they published their annual report today, where they sum up the work they're doing |
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