WhatsApp has been fined a record €225m (£193m) after it was found to have breached EU data protection rules. An investigation by Ireland’s privacy watchdog found that the company broke stringent regulations in relation to transparency of data shared with other companies also owned by parent firm Facebook. The Data Protection Commission said on Thursday it was also […]
Nine cyber attacks affecting the British transport sector were missed by the UK’s mandatory reporting laws and were only disclosed to the government on a voluntary basis, Sky News has learnt. A law introduced three years ago was intended to boost Britain’s ability to defend itself from foreign state and criminal hackers by obliging critical […]
The heads of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are among the business leaders that met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how the government and private sector can work together to improve the nation’s cybersecurity, according to a senior administration official. “Most of our critical infrastructure is owned […]
A cyber-crime group known as REvil took meticulous care when picking the timing for its most recent attack – US Independence Day, 4 July. They knew many IT specialists and cyber-security experts would be on leave, enjoying a long weekend off work. Before long, more than 1,000 companies in the US, and at […]
A data breach that affected more than 40 million current, former and prospective T-Mobile customers is a massive cybersecurity incident that is bound to spark a public backlash. Or, then again, maybe it will be forgotten in a week. The proliferation of ever-larger breaches during the past decade has left the public so inured to […]
A hacker appears to be selling personally identifiable information (PII) relating to millions of US-based T-Mobile customers on an underground forum. While the forum post doesn’t say the data belongs to T-Mobile explicitly, the seller told Motherboard they obtained the information by breaching the telecom company’s servers. The pool of data reportedly includes the social security numbers (SSN), phone numbers, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have found a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket that exposed personally identifiable information (PII) of over three million US senior citizens. Discovered by researchers at WizCase, the cloud storage bucket belonged to SeniorAdvisor, which describes itself as the largest ratings and reviews website for senior care and services across the US and Canada. The misconfigured bucket contained over 180GB of […]
Almost as quickly as we experienced the pivot to work-from-home and to move-to-the-cloud to minimize the economic impact of the pandemic, we also saw what felt like a pick up in significant cyberattacks, from the Solarwinds supply chain attack to a raft of ransomware incidents. How can your organization avoid such attacks? Did moving workers […]
In the first few months of the pandemic, cloud-based cybersecurity attacks increased by 630% with attackers making the most of the vulnerabilities of a rushed effort for staff to work from home. However, shock-worthy statistics like this don’t paint a clear picture of the cybersecurity realities of remote working. The truth is that 44% of […]
Data breach incidents hit unprecedented levels over the last year as businesses were forced to rapidly transition to a remote-first work environment, according to a new report. The latest edition of IBM’s annual Cost of Data Breach report estimates that data breaches now cost companies an average of $4.24 million per incident, which is the highest […]