by Bob | Sep 28, 2016 | Views
It’s often said that there are only four different scams in the world, and all scams are a variation on those. By far the most common, particularly in our electronic age, is for the scammer to impersonate an authority figure – bank, HMRC, police –...
by Bob | Sep 23, 2016 | Views
YAHOO! today confirmed that the personal details of ‘up to 500 million users’ may have been stolen, back in 2014, by a data breach that Yahoo believes initiated by “state-sponsored actor”. That’s a stunning data breach, potentially...
by Bob | Aug 23, 2016 | Views
Anybody with an interest in the internet or blogging will be aware of WordPress; it’s now estimated that that over 26% of websites use the WordPress ‘engine’. The underlying content management system (based on a MySQL database) is free and relatively...
by Bob | Jul 26, 2016 | Views
Now here’s an interesting data breach, it’s perhaps indicative of changing approaches by hackers. As companies thankfully become more savvy about protecting data, so hackers are having to become more creative. They augment stolen data by accessing more...
by Bob | Jul 11, 2016 | Views
We read constantly of data breaches and of sensitive data being made available for sale on the ‘dark web’ – indeed as I reported here in February sometimes not even on the dark web. While we at Compliance3 tend to concentrate on the security of, and...
by Bob | Jul 7, 2016 | Views
Further to my post about identify theft the other day (here), the National Crime Agency this week published their 2016 Cyber Crime Assessment, and it makes sobering reading. The NCA reports that there were 2.46 million “cyber incidents” last year,...
