More From Security Breaches & Attacks – Page 12
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4,500 successful daily cyber attacks on UK SMEs
An estimated 65,000 attacks are carried out on UK SMEs every day resulting in 4,500 breaches, a report has highlighted.
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Marriott International hotel chain faces lawsuit after millions of guests’ data records exposed by hackers
Marriott International is facing a UK lawsuit on behalf of former guests whose personal records were hacked in a major data breach.
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Security Concerns over Contact Tracing Apps
When an individual is found to be infected with the coronavirus, the race is on to find those who they have come into contact with, as these people could be carriers or even be infected. This has led to hundreds of coronavirus contact-tracing mobile applications being developed worldwide and backed by various governments and national health authorities, as well as guidelines by the EU and special protocols developed by the two major smartphone OS vendors Apple & Google. In some places, the usage of such applications has been made mandatory for people who want to gain access into public spaces.
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Preparing for the ‘new normal’ in cyber security
The global coronavirus pandemic has added an enormous strain on employees’ ability to work remotely.
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Artificial Intelligence: addressing the risks to data privacy and beyond
As more companies are implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a core part of their digital transformation, there is a requirement for boards to focus on the risks related to AI use of personal data and the potential bias and unpredictability in its output.
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Addressing Privacy and Data Security Implications of the Coronavirus
COVID-19 arrives just as the first omnibus privacy statute in the United States, the CCPA became effective. Since its January 1 effective date, we continue to wait for finalization of the CCPA regulations and enforcement that was slated for July 1.
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Hundreds of thousands of credit card details leaked online
Credit card details issued by banks from at least six Southeast Asian countries have been leaked online.
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Lead generation company exposes over 110m records
Lead generation company, Leadhunter, has exposed and lost over 110 million records due to an unsecured database.
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Ireland ranked least vulnerable European country to cybercrime
Research reveals that the Netherlands is the most vulnerable European country to cybercrime.
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Podcast
Nigel Tozer: Back-up and Recovery in the Cloud
Listen to hear from Nigel Tozer, a privacy expert at Commvault as he discusses Back-up and Recovery in the Cloud.
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Ikea apologises for data breach
The homeware retailer, Ikea, has issued an apology to Singapore-based customers that may have been adversely impacted by a data breach the firm suffered.
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Can artificial intelligence beat a human hacker?
At some point, we have all completed a captcha to prove we are human when online. So, when a robot successfully completed the test, we were left asking, are our computers secure?
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Research reveals the most vulnerable IoT devices
SAM Seamless Network unveils its Threat Assessment Lab research, investigating new attack vectors focusing on IoTs.
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McAfee, Symantec & Trend Micro breached by Russian hacking group
The three US-based antivirus software vendors that had been breached by a Russian hacking group have now been identified.
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Inadequate security sees surge in IoT data breaches, study shows
Research finds that the number of data breaches linked to Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased considerably over the last two years.
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‘Ethical’ hack compromises data of countless online shoppers
Hundreds of thousands of online shoppers have had their personal data exposed in a recent ‘ethical’ hack.
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10 ways cybersecurity will evolve in the next five years
Looking back just 10 years, the cyber threat landscape is almost unrecognisable. Back then most IT security threats were unsophisticated malware programs (mostly viruses, worms or trojans) written by people whose main aim was simply to cause trouble.