Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans David Cameron met with the editors of the Sun, the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday in the two weeks prior to a government announcement delaying the controversial imposition of costs on the newspaper industry. Despite promising to put the victims…
GQ publisher in contempt of court with phone-hacking article
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The publisher of GQ magazine has been found guilty of contempt of court over a “very seriously prejudicial” article about the phone-hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Condé Nast, the US publisher behind the magazine, was accused of publishing…
Mirror challenges ‘out of proportion’ phone-hacking payouts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The damages paid out by Mirror Group Newspapers to eight victims of phone hacking were “out of all proportion” to the gravity of the harm done, the Court of Appeal has heard. MGN is appealing against Mr Justice Mann’s ruling, in…
Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey to star in Comic Strip’s phone-hacking comedy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Peter Richardson’s Comic Strip series will turn its attention to Rupert Murdoch and the phone-hacking scandal in a new one-off comedy, The Red Top!, starring Maxine Peake, Russell Tovey and Stephen Mangan. Peake will play flame-haired Rebekah, an “innocent and beguiling…
Rebekah Brooks retakes the reins at UK newspapers four years after phone-hacking trial
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When Rebekah Brooks returns to run Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers today she will face the toughest challenge of her career – rebuilding her reputation and the company in the harsh glare of the public spotlight. Ms Brooks, the media mogul’s protege…
No end in sight: More drama to come in the phone-hacking scandal
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Like the Wars of the Roses, Frank Sinatra’s much-postponed retirement and the proceedings of the Chilcot inquiry, the newspaper phone-hacking scandal seems to go on for ever. With the conclusion of the Leveson investigation into the British press, and the jailing…
Rebekah Brooks Returning To News Corp After Phone-Hacking Scandal
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks will return to her old job heading Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper division, according to the Financial Times and New York Times, just over a year after being cleared of criminal charges in a phone-hacking scandal….
Trinity Mirror allowed to appeal £1.2m payout to phone-hacking victims
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Trinity Mirror has been granted permission to appeal the £1.2m in payouts made to eight victims of phone hacking by its Mirror titles. Trinity said an appeal by its Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) subsidiary, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror…
Nick Davies: Ipso could have killed phone-hacking investigations
Davies, the investigative reporter who unveiled the extent of the phone-hacking scandal, discussed his new book Hack Attack at the Frontline Club in London “The greatest threat to freedom of the press in our country is our libel law. […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
Ex-NotW deputy and features editors to stand trial on phone-hacking charges
Neil Wallis and Jules Stenson, the former deputy editor and features editor of the News of the World, are due to stand trial at the Old Bailey next year over an alleged conspiracy to hack phones. Sitting at the Old […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…