ICO issues warning over SQL injection flaws as travel firm fined £7,500
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned organisations to wise up on SQL injection flaws after fining a travel firm for a serious data breach caused by the issue.
View ArticleHome working is still data security disaster in the making, says Imation
After a decade trying, many organisations seem no nearer solving the problem of allowing staff to work at home without breaking basic data security, a survey by Imation has found. Many workers are...
View ArticleRovnix Trojan has infected 130,000 UK Windows PCs, warns BitDefender
A new version of the The Rovnix Trojan that has spent 2014 quietly spreading across the Internet has infected at least 130,000 PCs in the UK to pilfer credit card data, security firm BitDefender has...
View ArticleGovernment wants UK firms to manage risk with cyber-insurance
The Government wants to boost the uptake of cyber-insurance as a way of improving how UK organisations manage security risk, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has said at a summit hosted...
View ArticleSpread of Internet encryption creating 'visibility void' claims Blue Coat
Large numbers of websites and Internet services are disappearing behind encrypted connections, part of a growing "visibility void" in which organisations struggle to tell friendly traffic from foe,...
View ArticleDarkhotel APT hackers campaign 'followed' global CEOs using hotel networks
A state-backed espionage group has spent years targeting senior executives from large global companies using a specialised Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) that can follow and steal data from them as...
View ArticleIT staff not up to speed on EU Data Protection Regulation
Up to a half of IT European staff admit they're not ready for the EU's ground-breaking General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and more than that number aren't even sure what the term ‘GDPR' stands...
View ArticleGoogle warns of deadly manual account hijacking attacks
If an attacker compromises an online account what damage can they do and does the user wrest back control?
View ArticleIs this app the answer to account hijacking? LogDog launches on Google Play
Orange-backed Israeli startup LogDog has launched a new smartphone app it believes offers a way for users of services such as Gmail and Twitter to secure these accounts against hijacking by monitoring...
View ArticleSamsung's Knox to be tightly integrated with BlackBerry's BES12
Under-pressure BlackBerry is fighting back, announcing a tie-up with Samsung that will bring the firm's BlackBerry Enterprise Service 12 (BES 12) security to Android handsets running the South Korean...
View ArticleNHS suffered six data breaches every day since 2011, study finds
The NHS has suffered more than 7,000 data breaches in the last three years, a rising volume of incidents that will only be tackled when prison sentences are handed down for serious offences, a study by...
View ArticleAndroid and iOS apps still being cloned to spread malware
Mobile app cloning from unauthorised app sites now affects 97 percent of the top 100 paid Android apps and 87 percent of the Apple iOS apps in the same category, with financial services, healthcare and...
View ArticleUS retailers still struggling with data breach security, says BitSight
US retailers are still struggling to improve their defences against data breaches, with almost two thirds experiencing declining security performance using a methodology based on looking for traces of...
View ArticleData breaches rose 25 per cent to 320 incidents in single quarter, SafeNet...
SafeNet's latest Breach Level Index (BLI) report has underlined the bleak picture of global data breaches, with 320 reported compromises between July and September leaking a total 183 million customer...
View ArticleWater firm SESW opens tap on ForeScout NAC security upgrade
Sutton and East Surrey Water (SESW) has started using ForeScout's CounterACT network access control (NAC) monitoring system to boost the firm's security automation and asset discovery across its...
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