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Businesses need to be absolutely clear about terms and definitions if they are to achieve compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation. Semantics is rarely a matter of life and death, but a misunderstanding over a couple of words could do serious damage to your business. When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018, businesses will need to have a precise and thorough understanding of the various terms and...

Organisations experienced an average of 237 DDoS attack attempts per month during Q3 2017 – equivalent to 8 DDoS attack attempts every day – as hackers strive to take their organisations offline or steal sensitive data, according to the latest DDoS Trends and Analysis report from Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of real-time DDoS defense solutions. The data, which is based on DDoS attack attempts against Corero customers, represents a 35% increase...

New research of European businesses, conducted by Kaspersky Lab, has revealed surprising variations in the levels of preparedness for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With less than nine months to go before the regulations become enforceable, there’s a surprising – and worrying – inconsistency of readiness levels across IT decision makers in Europe. With businesses that process personal data within the EU continuing to grapple with their GDPR obligations, Kaspersky Lab set out to...

There has been a very strong start to the Cyber Security Summit & Expo, taking place at the London Business Design Centre. Speakers so far at largest one-day UK event dedicated to Cyber Security have included Mark Sayers, Deputy Director in Cyber and Government Security at the Cabinet Office, who told delegates that the fight was on "to make the UK the hardest target for Cyber Crime," and Alison Whitney, Deputy Director for Digital Government...

Identity and security company Nexus Group launches the Nexus Service Station. “It lets your users administer a range of tasks required during the lifecycle of their access cards, such as ordering new cards, entering user data and taking photos. This means that your card administration costs can be dramatically reduced,” says Anders Wallbom, product owner of the Nexus Service Station. Nexus Service Station is preferably installed in a public area to which most users have...

Big Data London (BDL), the UK’s largest exhibition and conference for data leaders, today revealed the first findings from the inaugural UK Fourth Industrial Revolution Report. The independent research, sponsored by Big Data LDN and Hortonworks, surveyed how 250 of the UK’s largest data-driven organisations are coping with pre-Brexit pressure to compete against data-savvy competitors globally. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), driven by data, follows on from others which Britain led, including steam power, computing...

Bkav, a Vietnamese cybersecurity firm have demonstrated how they bypassed Apple Inc's face recognition ID software on the new Iphone X by using a mask made out of silicone, paper tape and a 3D printer.  A video demonstrating how the security researcher fooled the face ID security has since been uploaded. Although these are some extreme lengths to go through in order to hack the Iphone X - it took a week for Bkav to successfully...

In the latest example of brandjacking, this evening we are seeing a run of phishing emails impersonating major retail brands. The criminal emails are leveraging several different compromised MailChimp accounts to bypass traditional email scanning software, and then using the power of major household name brands to entice users to click.   Despite being simple HTML emails that are emanating from the compromised MailChimp accounts, the emails are well formatted and could be easily mistaken...

- Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider, and Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced a strategic partnership to combine their expertise in PSD2-compliant payments and financial data aggregation. Token’s open banking operating system, TokenOS™, enables banks to generate revenue from PSD2 compliant payments and simplifies access to banks for third-party service providers, via a universal API....

Palo Alto Networks®, the next-generation security company, has today released findings of independent research into the state of cybersecurity within the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Working with Vanson Bourne, 100 NHS IT decision-makers were surveyed on the importance of data security in the wake of recent cyberattacks, preparedness for forthcoming tougher data protection rules, and the development of trust when it comes to how patients digitally interact with the NHS.   The study...