Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …
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The police forces of Norfolk and Suffolk have reported errors with the information they released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, processed between April 2021 and March 2022. You’re not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak – The …
The Council has had to send out thousands of letter following being caught up in the security breach at Capita. Colchester City Council contacts 7,000 people after data hack – BBC News Capita is the largest outsourcing company in the country offering a wide range of services that businesses, organisations, …
The French data protection regulator wants to fine Apple €6 million for inconsistencies between the consent required between it own apps and third party apps. Explicit user consent was required for third party apps to track users but not for Apple apps and services. Apple deserves €6 million fine for …
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The vast amount of Twitter user data that has recently been exposed online is from a data breach from 2021, not a new data breach according to Twitter. Twitter confirms recent user data leak is from 2021 breach (bleepingcomputer.com) None of these big tech companies ever give the impression in …
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The hackers have the motivation to steal your personal data and credentials as it is very easy for them to monetise these types of attacks. The threat actors have their own supply chains buried within webs of security and obfuscation. The hackers will steal the personal information, using a suite …
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Following a breach of security of the international financial technology company Revolut, which was quickly dealt with by their security team, over 50,000 client accounts were compromised and information stolen. Although information such as, email addresses, phone numbers, account data and some limited credit/debit card data was stolen, PIN, detailed …
