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Ticketmaster breach compromises personal data of 40,000 UK customers

Posted on 28/06/2018

Ticketmaster UK, one of the world’s largest ticketing companies, has confirmed a potential breach of security which may have compromised personal information of some of its customers. It’s understood the information compromised may include names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers as well as payment card details. The breach may have affected 40 000 UK customers […]

Doubting Office 365 security…build security layers!

Posted on 25/06/2018

Businesses use and continue to adopt Office 365; the driver is mainly to reduce costs and improve productivity. With so many reliant on the service, Microsoft continues to improve its built-in security controls. Having said that, organisations still face security challenges and are confronted with a broad range of individual use cases and requirements for […]

Time to wake up and act on cyber security

Posted on 25/06/2018

The Dixons Carphone data breach shows how vulnerable customer’s data can still be despite the introduction of GDPR last month. The breach is the first large scale attack on the telecoms industry to come to light since GDPR came into effect at the end of May – and whilst the attack occurred before the GDPR […]

Phishing emails can bypass Office 365 Security

Posted on 21/06/2018

It’s been uncovered that phishing emails may go through undetected by Office 365 security. A tactic used by cybercriminals manipulates font sizes which disrupts the Office 365 protection strategy and lets this happen. Office 365 uses natural language processing to detect phishing emails and to help block potential phishing attacks. The email’s content is scanned […]

Financial services company, Liberty, hacked: sensitive data of millions compromised

Posted on 18/06/2018

Pan-African financial services company, Liberty, with a presence in 18 African countries offering asset management, investment, insurance and health products to over 3 million people has been hacked. Liberty clients received notifications on Sunday morning from the company, explaining that its IT infrastructure had been subject to “unauthorised access”. In a recent notice posted on […]

Gloucestershire Police fined £80,000 for identifying abuse victims in bulk email

Posted on 15/06/2018

Gloucestershire Police has been fined £80,000 under the Data Protection Act 1998 after sending a bulk email (an update on an abuse allegation case) to 56 recipients on the 19 December 2016. The new Data Protection Act of 2018 did not apply because the breach occurred prior to its enforcement. The officer did not use […]

Dixons Carphone breach compromises data of nearly 6 million customers

Posted on 14/06/2018

The ICO confirmed that it is investigating the incident reported by Dixons Carphone relating to the breach of nearly 6 million customer’s data. The breach relates to two separate incidents, one the compromise of customers’ bank cards/payment details and the other the compromise of personal information of 1.2 million customers. “An incident involving Dixons Carphone […]

Yahoo UK Services fined £250,000 for compromising British citizens’ data

Posted on 14/06/2018

The ICO has taken the decision to fine Yahoo UK Services £250,000 for the data breach following a cyber attack in November 2014. The maximum permissible fine could have been double that. It took Yahoo almost 2 Years to disclose the breach that compromised the personal data of more than 500 million users including their […]

US Navy hacked, what can organisations learn from this…

Posted on 12/06/2018

Hackers thought to be from the Ministry of State Security (MSS) division in Guangdong, linked to the Chinese government, have stolen over 614GB of sensitive data from the computer systems of a US Navy contractor. The contractor was working with the Naval Undersea Warfare Centre (a submarines and underwater weaponry R&D organisation) when the data […]

ePrivacy, the next big regulation change

Posted on 10/06/2018

Just as many thought they had EU data protection sorted, were accepting of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and making steady progress to GDPR compliance, a new EU regulation is underway and waiting in the wings to make its debut. The draft EU ePrivacy Regulation, published on the 10 January 2017 by the European […]

CloudPets is not the only hackable toy, read this before giving a child any…

Posted on 07/06/2018

In the news… It has recently been reported that retailers are pulling smart toy brand CloudPets from sale due to the cybersecurity threats they pose. These threats to families and children’s security are not new and concerns were raised over a year ago when the data of 820,000 toy owners with links to 2.2million voice […]

HR software company, PageUp, informs UK’s ICO of suspected data breach

Posted on 06/06/2018

Australian company PageUp has announced a suspected data breach, potentially putting the personal details of thousands at risk. In February this year, Australia brought in mandatory data breach reporting. Under the new legislation, companies who suspect a data breach must immediately report the incident to affected clients and customers. The cloud-based HR software provider with 2.6 million […]

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