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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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
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
Understanding millennials critical in filling cyber-skills gap
Researchers say by 2022 there will be a shortage of 1.8 million information security workers and that tech firms need to take notice of what motivates millennials to take advantage of the next generation of cyber talent to fill the employment gap. Millennials are more likely to voluntarily change jobs within
InfoSec 2017: What are Fancy Bears and why it matters, even for SMEs
"We track all Russian threat actors under 'bear'" said Adam Meyers, VP of intelligence at CrowdStrike and a widely recognised expert in the field, as he addressed a crowd at InfoSec 2017. In a talk labelled Hacking Exposed: Real-World Tradecraft Bears, Pandas and Kittens, Meyers lifted the lid on some of
