Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News Sydney 19 Oct 2026 As increasingly frequent acts of violence against politicians have shocked the globe in recent years, Australia has watched on with a contradictory feeling: that attacks like that could not happen here, and that it was only a matter of time until...
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Joe Tidy, Cyber Correspondent BBC World Service 16 October 2026 German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted...
Ian Aikman, BBC News 17 Oct 2026 The government must do more to protect key infrastructure against “hybrid attacks” from Russia, a former national security adviser has told the BBC. Lord Ricketts said more money should be spent on the defence budget, as well as improving the resilience...
ByDaniel Sandford, BBC News 16 October 2026, 11:57 BST A teenager who travelled from Norway to the UK to carry out a “hit” for an organised crime group has been sentenced to 20 years’ detention. Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, with...
Caitlin Doherty, BBC News 15 October 2026 A Taco Bell cashier’s alleged plot for a mass shooting at a Hindu temple near Chicago was thwarted by a tip-off from one of his colleagues, investigators say. Alexandros Paporakis, 19, from Palatine, Illinois, appeared in court on Wednesday charged with one...
https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/news/serving-member-of-the-british-army-jailed-for-explosives-and-firearms-offences/ 14 Oct 2026 A serving member of the British Army has been jailed for the possession of explosives and firearms for terrorist purposes. Mark Broadhurst (04/05/1998), of Scott Close, Chesterfield, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, October 14, following a week-long hearing in June...
Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent and Adam Goldsmith, BBC News 13 Oct 2026, 13:00 BST MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, as he labelled Russia “aggressor number one”. Sir Ken McCallum warned...
Vicky Wong 12 Oct 2026 Political figures who are not currently MPs will be given police support, the home secretary has announced. Shabana Mahmood told MPs there was “insufficient protection” for those serving in public life and that the new announcement will cover peers, former MPs and party spokespeople....
Joe Couglan, BBC News 10 Oct 2026, 16:56 King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other “hostile online activity” pose to trust and security in the digital age. The comments, made in a letter to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to mark its 10th...
Helen Burchell, BBC News Cambridgeshire 8 October 2026, 16:00 BST Two Latvian men have been arrested under the National Security Act after a fence was breached at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire. The alert was raised when a Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) security patrol at RAF Molesworth identified...
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