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Privacy and data protection

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  British Airways data breach worse than thought

  British Airways has admitted that up to 185,000 more people than first thought may have had personal details compromised in August’s data breach

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  IoT ecosystem needs to be investigated, say experts

  A conference of IoT experts convened by Enisa and Europol has made key recommendations to ensure security vulnerabilities do not overshadow benefits

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  MEPs call for action in wake of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal

  European members of parliament demand action to protect citizens’ privacy from abuses such as those uncovered in the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  GandCrab decryption tool released by No More Ransom

  Another decryption tool has been made available free of charge in the battle against ransomware to help victims avoid paying to release their data

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook

  The UK privacy watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has escaped a fine of more than $1bn under the GDPR, but will face the maximum under the DPA for failing to protect users’ personal information

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Cathay Pacific under fire over breach affecting 9.4 million passengers

  Hong Kong-based airline reveals massive data breach of the most sensitive personal data of passengers five months after loss was confirmed

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Becrypt security platform helps ease cloud adoption

  Becrypt’s secure operating system is driving a new service aimed at helping organisations reduce cost and increase agility in using cloud-based services and online applications

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Choose security tools wisely to gain upper hand

  The cyber threat landscape is continually changing, but staying abreast of attacker and defender innovation can help business leaders gain the upper hand, says KuppingerCole

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Government can’t guarantee no-deal Brexit data-sharing agreement

  Digital minister Margot James says there is no clear timetable on when the UK will secure a data adequacy decision from the EU, and cannot guarantee an agreement will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Sibos 2018: ‘Black swan’ cyber event is inevitable

  With security experts and bankers expecting a 9/11-style cyber event, deeper collaboration between companies and governments is necessary to identify emerging threats before they occur

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Yahoo to pay at least $85m for data breach settlement

  Yahoo has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit on behalf of 200 million consumers affected by a data breach in 2013

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Interview: Steve Grobman, McAfee CTO shares his views on some burning security questions

  Cyber security technology innovator and veteran Steve Grobman shares his views on adversarial artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and security for next-gen tech

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Morrisons loses appeal against data breach liability ruling

  Supermarket chain has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling that found it liable for a data leak by a former employee, underlining the importance of managing insider threats

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Centralised identity risky and not web 3.0 friendly, says entrepreneur

  User controlled identity is less risky than centralised identity and essential for the next evolution of the web, according to an entrepreneur and evangelist of self-sovereign identity and blockchain technologies

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  McAfee CTO raises concerns about election cyber security

  The security industry needs to look at the security of election processes around the world as well as the security of voting and counting machines, says McAfee CTO

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Learn lessons from attacks, says McAfee investigations chief

  Organisations should use every cyber attack as an opportunity to learn, identify weaknesses and improve security posture, according to McAfee’s head of cyber investigations

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  McAfee researchers uncover ‘significant’ espionage campaign

  Researchers discover campaign targeting South Korea, the US and Canada with links to eight-year-old source code from a threat group that has been dormant for five years

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  'Sealed cloud' promises better data security

  TÜV SÜD’s Singapore Sealed Cloud does not grant administrators access to data, reducing the possibility of hackers breaking into databases using compromised administrator credentials

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Zero-trust security model gaining traction

  The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Tech companies should not be under legal duty to remove terrorist material, says watchdog

  The internet should not be a safe place for terrorists, but making it compulsory for technology companies to trawl for radical content risks interfering with the rights of innocent people, says Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Good data governance is good business

  Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law

  Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  FS-ISAC awards cyber security scholarships in Europe

  Five women have been awarded cyber security scholarships at FS-ISAC’s 2018 EMEA Summit

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Some 10% of user-reported emails malicious

  On average, 1 in 10 user-reported emails is identified as malicious, and more than half can be tied to credential phishing, a Cofense report reveals

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Watchdog calls for clarity on Schedule 7 terrorism powers

  The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation has called for greater clarity over police Schedule 7 powers to seize mobile phones and computers and question people without grounds for suspicion at ports and airports

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  RATs and Mimikatz among top publicly available hacking tools

  Remote access Trojans (RATs), web shells and Mimikatz among the top publicly available tools that are used in cyber attacks around the world, a five-nation cyber intelligence report reveals

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  The troublesome saga of Gov.uk Verify

  As the government plans to hand over its flagship identity assurance programme to the private sector, Computer Weekly looks at the history of the troubled project and how Gov.uk Verify ended up on the chopping board

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Nato to be fully operational in cyber space by 2023

  Nato is aiming to achieve full operational readiness in cyber space within five years

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  MEPs urge Facebook to roll out election fraud prevention measures

  Facebook is coming under pressure from European lawmakers to do more to prevent its user data from being misappropriated during elections

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Bug bounties not a silver bullet, Katie Moussouris warns

  Targeted bug bounties have a role to play in cyber security, but they are not a "silver bullet", and run the risk of wiping out talent pipelines if poorly implemented, warns bug bounty pioneer

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  NCSC head says attribution of GRU attacks important

  The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has described the attribution of a wave of cyber attacks to Russia’s military intelligence service as “historically important” at a conference in Poland

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Singapore extends reach of digital ID system with cloud

  GovTech is using AWS to host a developer platform that enables government agencies and businesses to develop services that build on the upcoming National Digital Identity system

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Cooperation vital in cyber security, says former Estonian minister

  States acting alone cannot be efficient in cyber security and need to cooperate with others to build trust, says a former foreign minister of Estonia

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Consumer Google+ dumped in favour of enterprise focus

  Google+ will no longer be offered to consumers, following a security audit. Instead, the company plans to flesh out an enterprise social media strategy

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  High Court blocks Google iPhone privacy lawsuit

  The UK High Court has thrown out a group action lawsuit against Google for tracking iPhone browsing data, but campaign group Google You Owe Us, which brought the litigation, will appeal the decision

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  NCSC head calls for technocratic partnership to fix cyber risks

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is appealing for collaboration with the technology industry to remedy key vulnerabilities in current IT

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  ICO hits Heathrow Airport with £120,000 data breach fine over lost USB stick

  Information Commissioner’s Office fines airport after a member of the public came across a USB stick containing sensitive personal information about airport staff

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Google Safety Center goes live in the UK

  Google says its commitment to transparency is as strong as ever as its new Safety Center goes live in the UK to help keep businesses and consumers safe online

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  GDPR case work swamps Denmark’s data protection agency

  The agency investigating alleged breaches of GDPR in Denmark is recruiting additional resources to cope with the increase in work

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Security Serious Unsung Heroes announced

  Awards celebrate the people of the cyber security industry on the front lines of organisations battling cyber threats

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Business email compromise made easy for cyber criminals

  Poor security practices and access to hacking services are making it easy for cyber criminals to compromise business email, research reveals

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Apps are gateway to business data for cyber attackers

  Application security is becoming increasingly important because apps are often the main way cyber attackers are getting into corporate networks, a threat researcher warns

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Rise in data-stealing Betabot malware

  Researchers are warning about an increase in Betabot malware after detecting multiple infections in recent weeks, underlining the importance of software patching

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  UK firms’ password security score ‘average’

  While businesses are making strides in strengthening password security, there is more work to be done, with the UK password score lagging behind the frontrunners, a survey shows

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Tesco Bank gets first cyber-related FCA fine

  UK’s financial watchdog issues its first cyber-related fine to Tesco Bank in connection with a multimillion-pound cyber fraud in 2016

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Facebook could face up to $1.6bn fine for data breach

  Facebook is under increased pressure to demonstrate that users’ personal data is protected as it faces a potential fine of more than a billion dollars for a data breach affecting millions of users

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia