A council has upped its security measures after it became the latest local authority to be hit by a cyber attack. On Friday morning, Portsmouth City Council in Hampshire said it was among those affected by an attack by a group calling themselves NoName057(16).

A cyber attack has hit an East Lancashire authority with staff actively working with security officers to address the issue.

Councils in the U.K. have been affected by a string of (DDoS) attacks. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) has taken responsibility for some of the

A local authority has been the target of a cyber attack for the second time in a week. Middlesbrough Council's website was affected by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday last week and it was attacked again on Sunday morning.