In a month from now, the UK will welcome GDPR which will give the ICO more powers to defend consumer interests and issue fines of up to £17 million or four percent of global turnover on organisations in the event of data breaches owing to poor cyber-security credentials. With little time
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Splunk adds more machine learning to its monitoring tools | Data
Splunk continues to turn to machine learning to differentiate its platform of monitoring tools from rivals, and deliver valuable insights to customers. Machine data specialist Splunk is looking to do more of the heavy lifting when it comes to helping customers analyse and act on their ever-increasing amounts of data by
German elections vulnerable to hacking: ‘cyber-warfare’ say security pros
Chaos Computer Club warned that software being used to tabulate and transmit vote totals in Germany's upcoming parliamentary elections contains major vulnerabilities; election hacking equals cyber-warfare says security pros On Thursday last week hackers from the Germany-based Chaos Computer Club warned that software being used to tabulate and transmit vote totals
Top UK directors lack training to deal with cyber attacks
The UK’s top firms and charities urgently need to do more to protect themselves from online threats, according to a government-backed audit Zubin Randeria, cyber security leader at PwC, said the reports echo the findings of the PwC CEO Survey, which found that three-quarters of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to
British organisations could face fines of up to £17m, or 4% of global turnover, if they fail to take measures to prevent cyber-attacks that could result in major disruption to services such as transport, health or electricity networks. But the proposals, which are being considered as part of a government consultation
Is GDPR the next Y2K Gravy Train?
A colleague of mine said recently in an article on GDPR that "a lot of the focus has been either on ‘the sky is falling in’ predictions about punitive/existential fines for breaches or on selling snake-oil products for ‘GDPR compliance'". He's not wrong! Remember the glory days of '99 when sharp suited,
Making Security A Priority In Connected Cars
In light of the news that thieves have found ways to hack into and steal Teslas, Alexander Moiseev, Chief Sales Officer at Kaspersky Lab commented ... “Today’s cars are becoming more and more like computers on wheels – with every generation, they adopt more sophisticated digital technologies in order to increase fuel
Microsoft lays off thousands of staff as it commits to the cloud
The Seattle-based computing giant is laying off thousands of staff in a reorganisation around selling cloud computing infrastructure and services Microsoft is cutting around ten percent of its global sales force as part of a broad reorganisation to focus on selling its cloud services under the Azure brand. In an official statement
Research: no matter its source, people will connect to any Wi-Fi
Symantec says as long as the connection is strong, free and fast, consumers will carry out pretty much any activity they normally would without thinking of the consequences. Research: no matter its source, people will connect to any Wi-Fi New research from security firm Symantec claims that consumers will connect to
Countering WannaCry And Petya With Blockchain Technology
We’re only halfway through 2017, but the world has already seen at least 2 global ransomware attacks. According to a report by Kaspersky, ransomware attacks have increased by 11.4% in the past 12 months, to almost 2.6 million worldwide. The complete extent of each attack remains unknown yet, but cybercriminals