Don’t Stand So Close To Me!

Here at Compliance3 we major on Contact Centres, and compliance. Our founders set up some of Britain’s first contact centres, or ‘call centres’ as they were called back in the day. We now work closely with major contact centres to help them improve...

Card Details going cheap

We’ve written here, over the past twelve months, about some pretty significant data breaches. Some, like last October’s Talk Talk data breach, triggered an almost instant wave of spam and social engineering telephone calls. Elsewhere, the ‘dark...

Gone Phishing

Brits targeted by 96,000 Scams last year The City of London Police, launching a new ‘Get Safe Online’ campaign (here) announced this week that number of reported phishing scams have risen by over 20% (to 95,556) in the last 12 months. That’s reported scams, so...

Cybercrime is a threat

and British businesses can’t afford to ignore it As I wrote here at the beginning of last December, 2015 will surely be seen as the year of the big data breach, high profile data breaches at Ashley Madison, Carphone Warehouse, Talk Talk, Hilton Hotels and J D...

Devaluing Data

If they do hack you, make sure it’s not worth their while 2015 will doubtless be viewed by many as the year of the big data breach; through the year we’ve learned of massive data breaches that have compromised the data of hundreds of thousands of individuals....

Data breach hits Hilton Worldwide hotel chain

Point of Sale terminals may have compromised customers’ card details. Computer Weekly has today reported that Hilton International has identified malware on its Point of Sale (PoS) terminals that may have compromised customers’ card details. This isn’t unique to...

Talk Talk Data Breach – update

Now we know the size, scope and costs of the October data breach Now that the dust has settled over October’s Data Breach at Talk Talk we now have ‘the facts’. Contrary to initial reports, it now transpires that the breach was not, as first reported,...

Talk Talk hit by major data breach

Once again, a major data breach has hit the headlines, this time it’s Talk Talk. The company claims that ‘there is a chance that… Credit card details and/or bank details’ of up to 4 million customers may be compromised in a ‘significant and sustained cyber-attack’. I...