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,...
by Bob | Jul 5, 2016 | Views
We recently attended a seminar in London that included a sobering presentation by Mike Haley, the Deputy Chief Executive of CIFAS – the Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System. CIFAS reported that the number of victims of identity theft rose by 57% last year – from...
by Bob | Jun 21, 2016 | Views
My old mother had a phrase that she would use if I ever did anything particularly stupid; which was perhaps more frequently than I remember. The phrase was ‘God loves a tryer’, and while it was evident from my lack of success in many foolhardy ventures...
by Bob | May 25, 2016 | Views
We’ve written in the past about data breaches, where customers’ card details are stolen, and while the press tend to dwell on the ongoing risks to customers as a result of their data being compromised, it’s rare for the subsequent exploitation of data breaches to make...
by Katrina Greenwood | May 18, 2016 | Uncategorised
On May 6, 2016 Nulled.IO tag line ‘expect the unexpected’ became a reality for the hacker forum. An unknown hacker broke through the simple MD5 hashing algorithm securing the website and gained access to a 9.45GB file containing all of the websites information. By...
by Bob | May 9, 2016 | Views
The UK Government yesterday published some worrying new statistics about the state of cybercrime affecting British business. The headline – which the BBC reported on the breakfast news – was that “Two thirds of large UK businesses hit by cyber breach...
by Bob | Apr 28, 2016 | Views
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – PCI DSS – is fundamental to much of the work we undertake with clients. First published in December 2004 in the wake of the Enron scandal, PCI DSS consolidated the security standards being enforced...
by Katrina Greenwood | Apr 26, 2016 | Views
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are some of the most important regulations in terms of data security. Christopher Graham, The UK Information Commissioner, stated the following at the ICO’s annual Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference in March...
by Bob | Apr 20, 2016 | Views
I wrote recently about the Panama Papers, probably the largest and most significant data breach of our times. While the dust has settled for now, the breach cost the Icelandic Prime Minister his job and caused severe embarrassment to the British Prime Minister. Well,...
by Bob | Apr 11, 2016 | Views
Possibly the most significant data breach of our age. We’ve seen data breaches come and go; they make headlines for a couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks and are largely forgotten, except by those whose data has been compromised and their subsequent victims. The...
