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GDPR Why is GDPR only now making the board pay attention to cyber security?
Dr Guy Bunker, CTO, Clearswift, shows us how the recent, high profile GDPR fines are the reason board members are …
Data leak Personal & financial data of 20m Ecuadorian citizens exposed via unsecured database
Personal and financial information of over 20 million Ecuadorian citizens were left exposed to public access by a data analytics …
Breach Over 419m phone numbers of Facebook users found in unsecured web server
A security researcher recently discovered an unsecured web server that contained more than 419 million phone numbers that are associated …
Breach Data breaches in the UK costing organisations £2.99 million on average
Data breaches impacting UK organisations in the past year inflicted losses of up to £2.99 million to them on average, …
Cryptocurrency QuickBit exposed 300,000 data records via unsecured MongoDB database
Swedish cryptocurrency exchange QuickBit has confirmed that around 300,000 personal data records of customers were left exposed on the Internet …
Equifax Equifax to pay up to £561m to settle multiple data breach complaints
US credit rating agency Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) to the Federal Trade Commission and …
News Malicious insider leaks personal information of 2.9m Desjardins customers
Memories of the Morrisons' data breach that involved a vengeful employee leaking personal and financial information of nearly 10,000 Morrisons …
Leadership From cinema to reality – three things every business can learn from disaster movies
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In dramatic style, Kathy Schneider, CMO, Sungard Availability Servic, outlines three things every business can learn from disaster movies... We …
Threats Majority of security pros want their firms to “hack back” cyber criminals
With organisations across the globe suffering countless cyber attacks everyday that either target their IT infrastructure or attempt to steal …
Culture & Education Only 1 in 5 firms fully prepared to comply with GDPR’s breach notification window
A majority of organisations are confident of adhering to the GDPR's 72-hour breach notification window even though only a fraction …
News How to create business continuity & disaster recovery plans
By Furqan Hashmi, Head of IT Security and Operations, Emirates Investment Authority My discussion at R3: Resilience, Response & Recovery …
Information Security UK cyber resilience: “Could do better”
How resilient are UK organisations to damage from cyber threats? New research from the Ponemon Institute indicates that there is …
