by Bob | May 14, 2017 | Views
The media has been awash with sensationalist stories of ‘cyber attacks on the NHS’. This is, of course a misrepresentation of the facts. NHS trusts have fallen victim of a piece of insidious ‘ransomware’ that, according to Europol – and...
by Bob | Apr 18, 2017 | Views
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) today published the results of its digital survey that suggested that, of the more than 1,200 businesses surveyed across the UK, some 20% had been hit by a cyber-attack in the last 12 months. It further reported that 42% of...
by Bob | Apr 12, 2017 | Views
It’s been a bit quiet of late on the data breaches front, although the suspicion has to be that, while data breaches are continuing, they just haven’t yet been detected. The Republic of Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner – Helen Dixon...
by Bob | Dec 8, 2016 | Views
As we approach the end of 2016, the rate of data breach – or more accurately data breach discoveries – doesn’t appear to be slowing. The BBC reported on Tuesday (here) that the Dailymotion subsidiary of French media company Vivendi had details of...
by Bob | Dec 5, 2016 | Views
We’ve seen a number of high profile data breaches over the last couple of years, but it’s rare to hear of data breaches in the Asia Pacific region. Last Friday (December 5th) the Japanese Cosmetics firm Shisheido reported that the online store operated by...
by Bob | Nov 30, 2016 | Views
The BBC reported this morning (here) that Camelot, the operator of the UK’s National Lottery, had suffered a data breach. Some 26,500 of the National Lottery’s 9.5 million online customers had had their account – comprising transaction history, date...
