#ministry-of-defence

#ministry-of-defence

Sir Gavin Williamson has announced that his pet tarantula, who once lived on his desk in the Houses of Parliament and Ministry of Defence, has died. The Conservative MP shared a series of photographs of him with his "trusty companion" set to Angels by Robbie Williams on social media to reveal the death. Cronus, who had been with the former defence secretary since he was a hatchling, achieved internet fame after reports about his life alongside his owner in Westminster emerged in 2016.

The Army Safety Investigation Team found no single causal mechanism, just a combination of minor-sounding factors, some of which implicate the troops themselves.

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The Army has paused the use of its Ajax armoured vehicles after soldiers became unwell from noise and vibration during a military exercise. About 30 soldiers became ill when training to use the armoured fighting vehicles over the weekend, and an investigation has been launched "out of an abundance of caution", the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Some emerged vomiting from the vehicles, while others were shaking after the military exercise on Salisbury Plain, according to The Times newspaper.

Their demand lands amid fierce criticism of the regulator's decision not to formally investigate the Ministry of Defence over what has been described as the most serious data breach in British history: the leaking of a spreadsheet revealing the identities and locations of more than 19,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban. Information Commissioner John Edwards defended his stance at a DSIT-hosted hearing last month, insisting the incident was a "one-off" error rather than evidence of systemic non-compliance inside the MoD.

Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails - and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a 'catastrophic' security breach, cybercriminals accessed the cache of files by hacking a maintenance and construction contractor used by the MoD.

A former Afghan interpreter exposed in a catastrophic Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breach has had his offer of relocation to the UK revoked despite waiting for two years in Pakistan.

Over 569 data incidents occurred in the Ministry of Defence in 2023-24, revealing significant concerns about their ability to protect sensitive information securely. This is an increase from 550 incidents the previous year and includes losses of electronic devices and mishandling of protected documents.