by Bob | Nov 7, 2016 | Views
It’s been very quiet on the data breach front of late; that’s not to say that data breaches aren’t occurring, simply that the breaches haven’t been detected. As Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of America’s Identity Theft Resource...
by Bob | Oct 23, 2016 | Views
While we at Compliance3 continue to work with companies in the UK and Europe to ‘take risk off the table’ by taking card data out of their data environments, criminals continue to probe other markets to find potential chinks in the armour of payment card...
by Bob | Oct 17, 2016 | Views
While much of the country continues to debate the ramifications of June’s ‘Brexit’ vote, there are some pieces of European legislation that will remain in force post ‘Brexit’. Key among these is the upcoming General Data Protection...
by Bob | Oct 6, 2016 | Views
Yesterday (October 5th) saw two interesting news reports, one made headlines, the other didn’t. The first report was the fine of £400,000 imposed on Talk Talk following their data breach last October, we first reported on it here. The fine, the largest imposed...
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 Katrina Greenwood | Jul 25, 2016 | Uncategorised
The Problem Since Microsoft’s release of Windows 10, in July 2015, excessive amounts of personal and usage data have been harboured from its users. Despite customers turning off all settings that may allow Microsoft to send data to their server in the US, user still...
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...
