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...
For enterprise DDoS defence, there should be more than one solution
Enterprises face a dilemma when it comes to defence against today’s modern DDoS attacks. Do they trust the surgical precision of an on-premises DDoS protection solution or go with a DDoS...
HR firm PageUp admits data breach
Cloud-based HR provider, PageUp has warned of a suspected data breach of its systems. The breach seems to be confined to its Australian subsidiary at the moment.
However, until the investigation is...
10 ways the cloud solves your endpoint security problems
Endpoint security is failing. There are a million attackers out there devoting all their energies to getting through the network perimeter and, right now, the odds are stacked in their favour.
Network...
NTT Security says “Prevention is better than cure”
NTT Security has published its 2018 Risk:Value Report (registration required). It is the first report since regulators started to enforce GDPR and since NTT Security published its Global Information Threat Intelligence...
Light at the End of the Tunnel: Benefits of GDPR
By now, we’ve all received at least one email from a business, social media network, or organization we’re registered with to inform us of changes to their privacy policy.
As you may...
New real-time training from Cyber Risk Aware
Cyber security training provider Cyber Risk Aware has launched a new training module. The module, Real Time Intervention Awareness, looks for risky behaviour by users. When it detects something it targets...
Has Covellite threat to US gone away?
Back in September 2017, Dragos warned of a new hacking group it named Covellite. It was monitoring phishing attacks by the group that were focused on US electric companies.
Further investigation showed...