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BBC has reported that the 2015 data breach suffered by TalkTalk, that compromised the personal information of 156,959 customers and cost the company up to £35 million to remediate its impact, also impacted a further 4,545 customers who were not... Read more
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In order to comply with the US government’s decision to ban the supply of equipment and other products and services to Huawei, Google recently curtailed the company’s access to future updates to the Android operating system as well as to... Read more
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A US court has indicted ten members of a cyber crime gang, including five Russian nationals, that deployed a credential-stealing malware known as GozNym to steal banking logins and gain access to online bank accounts of more than 41,000 victims... Read more
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The Information Commissioner’s Office issued monetary fines in only 29 cases out of 11,468 data breach cases it investigated between May 2018 and March this year, indicating that only around one in every 395 investigations resulted in monetary fines. In... Read more
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Liang Hua, the chairman of Huawei, has claimed that his company is “ willing to sign non-spy agreements with governments” to allay concerns that the company’s telecommunications infrastructure could be used by the Chinese government to spy on citizens of other countries. “We are willing... Read more
Threats
All Intel chips dating back to 2011 are vulnerable to a group of bugs known as ZombieLoad that causes Intel processors to leak sensitive data including passwords, private keys, and private messages. The presence of ZombieLoad was first observed by... Read more
Threats
A critical security vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed malicious actors to inject surveillance malware into users’ devices, the online messaging service has revealed, stating that the flaw impacted only a limited number of users. The critical vulnerability was discovered earlier this... Read more
Threats
With a large number of organisations choosing to store vast amounts of enterprise and customer data on cloud databases rather than in hundreds of thousands of SSDs and HDDs, many of them are now disposing off used SSDs and HDDs... Read more
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Law enforcement authorities in France and Israel have succeeded in arresting two administrators of a website known as DeepDotWeb who earned millions in kickbacks by referring buyers of fentanyl, heroin and other illegal goods to popular Dark Web marketplaces. The... Read more
Threats
The NHS is presently grappling with an alarming rise in the exodus of IT leaders and chief information officers at a time when it needs a lot of resources, tools, manpower, and funds to respond effectively to emerging cyber threats... Read more
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