Posts Tagged ‘data breaches’

Nearly half of young people risking in UK their future online safety thanks to rising trend of ‘re-data-ships’

By Editor | January 3, 2019

Nearly half of young people in the UK are risking their future personal online safety thanks to a rising trend of ‘re-data-ships.’ The stark warning comes after a survey by a Government-funded cyber security programme found that young people have regularly shared their passwords or PINs with boyfriends and girlfriends. To prevent these ‘re-data-ships’, the…

Regulation is the only way to control the IoT cyber-security threat, says Databarracks

By Editor | December 19, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the source of more data breaches, as we see mass adoption and rapid growth in the number of connected devices, both in consumer products and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This is according to business continuity and disaster recovery firm, Databarracks. The scale of vulnerability of IoT…

All I want for Christmas: A CISO’s wishlist

By Editor | December 5, 2018

As Christmas fast approaches, CISOs and cyber security experts around the world are busy putting plans in place for 2019 and reflecting on what could have been done differently this year. The high-profile data breaches have been no secret – from British Airways to Dixons Carphone to Ticketmaster and the introduction of GDPR in May…

Money matters – IBM talks data breaches in the financial sector

By Security News Desk | May 31, 2016

Tim Compston sits down with Limor Kessem, Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security and Alan Jenkins, who is IBM Security’s Associate Partner for FSS (Financial Services Sector), UK and Ireland, for a round table discussion on the cyber threat to the financial world.

IT calling for CEOs to be held accountable for data breaches

By Security News Desk | May 16, 2016

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, announces new findings from specialist market research agency Vanson Bourne.