GDPR draining organisations resources
A new poll shows how heavily implementing GDPR has affected the resources of organisations. It has resulted in organisations having to hire additional staff or external consultants as they lacked the...
adidas suffers US data breach
Sports clothing and equipment manufacturer adidas has warned US customers of a data breach. The data breach was discovered on June 26 but not by adidas.
It appears that it was informed...
Hackers target cryptocurrency investors using MacOS
A new piece of malware targeting Mac owners has been revealed by security researcher Remco Verhoef. It is targeted at people talking about crypto currencies on the Slack and Discord chat...
A front row seat to a data breach
Ticketmaster has warned customers of a data breach caused by third-party software. It believes the breach affects less than 5% of the organisation's customers. The data breach is believed to affect...
Cofense sees finance-based phishing attacks surge in UK
Security vendor Cofense has seen a significant increase in finance-based phishing attacks in the last three months. The phishing emails purport to come from major banks and Her Majesty's Revenue and...
F-Secure acquires MWR InfoSecurity
Finnish cyber security powerhouse, F-Secure, has signed an agreement to buy MWR InfoSecurity. This move adds around 400 new employees to F-Secure, many of them security researchers and threat intelligence analysts. It...
Okta asks – did Apple really approve that code?
Enterprise security vendor Okta, has taken a bite out of Apple's much vaunted security model. It has identified a vulnerability that allows anyone to make their code look as if it...
Dixons Carphone admits to data breach
Dixons Carphone has admitted to another data breach. This is not good news for the company who was fined £400,000 in January for a previous data breach. A spokesperson for the...
UK ICO fines Yahoo! UK Services Limited £250,000
The UK ICO has hit Yahoo! UK Services Limited with a £250,000 fine for its 2014 data breach. It comes in at joint 7th on the ICO largest fine list. The...
Optical Center gets €250,000 fine from the CNIL
French data protection authority, CNIL, has published the details of a €250,000 fine against Optical Center. It relates to a complaint filed with the CNIL in July 2017. The complaint alleged...