Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018
The largest data breach disclosed this month was by T-Mobile, the telecoms giant said there had been "unauthorised access" to potentially 2 million of their 77 million customer accounts. According to the media, a hacker took advantage of a vulnerability in a T-Mobile API (application programming interface). It was a ... Read More
Latest on the Currys PC World Data Breach Impacting 10 Million Customers
Following further investigations, Currys PC World today confirmed 10 million of their customer personal details may have been stolen by hackers, a revised number from the 1.2 million customers and 5.9 million payment cards it advised back in June. In June 2018, the company said there was "an attempt to ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for July 2018
The importance of assuring the security and testing quality of third-party provided applications is more than evident when you consider an NHS reported data breach of 150,000 patient records this month. The NHS said the breach was caused by a coding error in a GP application called SystmOne, developed by ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for June 2018
Dixons Carphone said hackers attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards and accessed 1.2 million personal data records. The company, which was heavily criticised for poor security and fined £400,000 by the ICO in January after been hacked in 2015, said in a statement the hackers had attempted to gain ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for May 2018
I'm sure the release of the GDPR on 25th May hasn't escaped anyone's attention. After years of warnings about the EU parliament's intended tough stance on enforcing the human right to privacy in the digital realm, a real 'game changer' of a global privacy regulation has finally landed, which impacts ... Read More
Application Development GDPR Compliance Guidance
Last week IBM developerWorks released a three-part guidance series I have written to help Application Developers develop GDPR compliant applications. Developing GDPR Compliant Applications GuidancePart 1: A Developer's Guide to the GDPRPart 2: Application Privacy by DesignPart 3: Minimizing Application Privacy RiskThe GDPRThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was created ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for April 2018
The fallout from the Facebook privacy scandal rumbled on throughout April and culminated with the closure of the company at the centre of the scandal, Cambridge Analytica.Overview of Facebook and Cambridge AnalyticaFacebook's Zuckerberg faces formal summons from MPsFacebook to contact 87 million users affected by data breachCanada data firm AIQ ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018
In the wake of the global political fallout over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, there are reports of a growing threat of Russian state or Russian state-affiliated hacking groups conducting cyber attack reprisals against UK organisations, government officials have directly warned bosses at electricity, gas and water firms, Whitehall departments ... Read More
How prepared is your business for the GDPR?
The GDPR is the biggest privacy shakeup since the dawn of the internet and it is just weeks before it comes into force on 25th May. GDPR comes with potentially head-spinning financial penalties for businesses found not complying, so it really is essential for any business which touches EU citizen's ... Read More
Cyber Security Roundup for February 2018
February saw over 5,000 websites infected by cryptocurrency mining malware after a popular accessibility plugin called ‘BrowseAloud’ was compromised by hackers. This led to several UK Government and Councils websites going offline, including the Information Commissioner's Office, the Student Loans Company, and Manchester City, Camden and Croydon Council website. Symantec ... Read More