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Privacy and data protection

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Met Police chief backs legislative framework for police tech

  Met Police commissioner has called for legislative framework to govern police use of new technologies, while defending the decision to use live facial recognition technology operationally without it

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Julian Assange phoned White House to warn of risk to lives

  Julian Assange phoned the White House to warn officials that unredacted cables published on the web posed a risk to lives, a court heard yesterday

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Google warns users not to mess with Huawei devices

  Google tells users of Huawei devices to try to avoid bypassing controls preventing them from loading its apps

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Sports retailer Decathlon left employee data exposed

  More than 123 million records were accidentally exposed on an unsecured ElasticSearch server

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  The Security Interviews: Gil Shwed’s 10-year vision for security

  Check Point founder Gil Shwed discusses his new Infinity Next concept and how he plans to remodel the world of cyber security in the next 10 years

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Cyber criminals targeting UK motorists, warns DVLA

  Cyber criminals are offering various services and tax refunds that purport to be from the DVLA

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  McAfee buys Light Point to enhance web browser protection

  Acquisition of Light Point Security will extend the capabilities of multiple McAfee products

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Thai university to roll out data protection certification

  Thailand’s National Institute of Development Administration is offering a certification programme to get organisations ready for the country’s data protection regime

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Assange extradition is a politically motivated ‘abuse of power’, court hears

  US government’s attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US is politically motivated and an abuse of process, court told

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  WikiLeaks founder Assange ‘put lives at risk’ by disclosing names in leaked documents, court hears

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘put lives of US informants at risk’ by publishing unredacted documents, lawyers for the US argued at the first day of a week-long extradition hearing

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Open security group unveils common OpenDXL language

  Open Cybersecurity Alliance announces the availability of OpenDXL Ontology, the first open source language for connecting disparate security tools through a common messaging framework

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  Labour condemns Google data plans

  Shadow digital minister Chi Onwurah challenges the government to stop Google’s plans to move UK user data out of the EU

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  Malicious apps still getting past Google controls

  Check Point researchers have found multiple malware-infected apps in the Google Play store, including a clicker called Haken, which has been downloaded more than 50,000 times

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  F-Secure’s AI reads mean tweets to fight abuse and trolls

  Researchers working on F-Secure’s Project Blackfin have developed a model for clustering tweets to help pinpoint abuse and harassment

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  UK and US accuse Russian spooks of Georgia cyber attacks

  Foreign secretary describes 2019 campaign of cyber attacks as reckless, brazen and unacceptable

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  Google plans to send Brits’ data to US after Brexit

  Move puts British user data beyond the reach of the EU’s GDPR, makes it more accessible to UK and US law enforcement agencies, and has prompted anger

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  Facilities firm ISS World crippled by ransomware attack

  An apparent ransomware attack has compromised some IT and email systems at Danish facilities firm ISS World

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Cost of cloud misconfigurations set at $5tn

  Cloud security outfit DivvyCloud says more than 33 billion records have been exposed in cloud misconfiguration incidents in the past 24 months

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Blasé directors put business data at risk

  The higher up within a business you go, the more likely you are to find people intentionally leaking confidential data, says Egress

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  US ‘breached due process’ in spying operation against Julian Assange’s lawyers

  Surveillance footage of Julian Assange’s meetings with lawyers and doctors in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London was an “abuse of process”

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Girlguiding hosts interactive cyber security workshop

  100 Guides from South West England took part in an NCSC event to learn more about security fundamentals

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering

  Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Australians more savvy about cyber security

  More Australians look out for signs of security features such as SSL encryption even as they remain sceptical of the data protection capabilities of small businesses

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Mastercard opens European security resilience unit

  Mastercard’s European Cyber Resilience Centre will bring together its partners and other industry bodies to support enterprise resilience

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  Ex-soldiers to become ethical hackers

  A new programme will give armed forces veterans in Scotland a grounding in cyber security skills, including penetration testing and ethical hacking

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Cyber criminals spread coronavirus conspiracy theories

  The latest email campaigns identified by Proofpoint are spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus outbreak

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Emotet evolving to exploit coronavirus fear

  With coronavirus cases now reported across the world, Emotet campaigns are exploiting legitimate fears to compromise their targets

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Internet Explorer zero day among 99 Patch Tuesday problems

  After an eventful January Patch Tuesday that marked the end of support for Windows 7, the February 2020 update is another whopper, fixing close to 100 vulnerabilities

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  MI5 failed to disclose failings in handling intercepted data, court hears

  MI5 failed to disclose serious failures in the way it handled intelligence data to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the surveillance regulator and ministers.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Mac-based security threats outpacing Windows

  Security threats targeting Apple endpoints are growing more quickly than those targeting Windows machines, according to Malwarebytes

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Chinese military personnel accused of Equifax hack

  A US federal grand jury has indicted four Chinese army personnel over the 2017 Equifax breach

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Tencent Cloud gains multi-tier cloud security certification

  China's Tencent Cloud joins major cloud suppliers in securing tier three of Singapore’s Multi-Tier Cloud Security standard in a bid to grow its presence in Asia

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  Police use of facial recognition ‘unjustifiable’, says Scottish Justice Committee

  Members of the Scottish Parliament have said police use of live facial recognition technology is “not fit for purpose”

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  What should be in Australia’s next cyber security strategy

  The Australian government is reviewing the nation’s cyber security strategy, but is it looking at the right issues?

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is ‘most dangerous’ movie

  Ahead of the 2020 Oscars, Kaspersky researchers say they found more than 300 files masquerading as the Joker movie

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Darktrace signs to McLaren for 2020 F1 season

  McLaren Racing has enlisted Darktrace to become its official artificial intelligence cyber security partner

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Web app ubiquity gives cyber criminals new opportunities

  The popularity and ubiquity of web-based apps such as Office 365 and Salesforce is a temptation too good to miss for cyber criminals

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Check Point pledges end to security updates

  Check Point’s Gil Shwed expands on a vision for the next 10 years of cyber security, which he calls Infinity Next

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  IoT network flaw left Philips Hue bulbs open to attack

  Vulnerabilities in the ZigBee internet of things networking protocol have left market-leading smart devices, including Philips Hue lightbulbs, open to exploitation

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Acronis CEO bullish as specialist goes beyond backup

  Acronis is set to launch Cyber Protect as it rides a wave of confidence based on increasing revenues and investor funding. Will the backup-plus-cyber protection calculation pay off?

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Social media targeting algorithms need regulation, says CDEI

  The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is recommending regulation of social media algorithms as part of a drive to make user targeting safe and ethical

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  MI5 faces court ruling over unlawful surveillance warrants

  Privacy groups Liberty and Privacy International ask the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to order MI5 to disclose full details of ‘unlawful’ conduct, after classified documents reveal the spy agency failed to comply with surveillance laws

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  Digital strategy for 2020-2030 sets out police technology plans

  National policing strategy sets a number of technological ambitions for the next decade, placing a particular emphasis on collaborative working and building common standards or frameworks

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  NHS adds supplier security audits to procurement platform

  A new feature in the NHS’s Edge4Health procurement platform will help NHS suppliers improve their cyber security posture and NHS organisations make better buying decisions

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Davos: The clock is ticking on climate change but cyber crime and emerging technologies add to risks

  Climate change, natural disasters, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity are the greatest risks we face. With cyber conflicts, state-sponsored hacking and internet fragmentation, doing nothing is not an option, says the World Economic Forum

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  UK police arrest three over Maltese cyber bank robbery

  The NCA has made three arrests in Belfast and London following an investigation into money laundering linked to a cyber heist on a bank in Malta

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  NCSC launches study on cyber security diversity

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre wants to improve the diversity of the cyber security sector

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  First coronavirus cyber threats seen in the wild

  Kaspersky has reported the first incidences of cyber security threats playing on fears of the emerging coronavirus

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Avast cans data harvesting subsidiary after outcry

  Avast will close its Jumpshot big data unit following repeated allegations of inappropriate handling of customer data

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  UK cyber security sector worth more than £8bn

  The UK’s cyber security industry employs 43,000 full-time workers, and contributed nearly £4bn to the UK economy in 2019, according to DCMS