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The ‘wearable technology’ market has been exponentially growing in recent years and is expected to exceed 830 million devices by 2020. One of the key drivers pushing this rapid expansion are fitness trackers, namely wristband tech and smart… Continue reading How Safe and Secure are Wearables?
Aside from Brexit, Cyber Threats and Cyber Attack accusations against Russia are very much on the centre stage of UK government’s international political agenda at the moment. The government publically accused Russia’s military ‘GRU’ intelligence … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for October 2018
September 2018 started with a data breach bang, with British Airways disclosing a significant hack and data loss. 380,000 of the airlines’ website and mobile app customers had their debit and credit card details lifted via a maliciously injected s… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for September 2018
On Friday (7th September 2018), British Airways disclosed between 21st August 2018 and 5th September 2018, 380,000 BA customer’s payment card transactions were compromised by a third party through its website and mobile app. This data include… Continue reading British Airways Hack Update: Caused by Injected Script & PCI DSS Non-Compliance is Suspected
In a statement, British Airways stated: “From 22:58 BST August 21 2018 until 21:45 BST September 5 2018 inclusive, the personal and financial details of customers making bookings on ba.com and the airline’s app were compromised.” The airline said… Continue reading British Airways Customer Data Stolen in Website and Mobile App Hack
The largest data breach disclosed this month was by T-Mobile, the telecoms giant said there had been “unauthorised access” to potentially 2 million of their 77 million customer accounts. According to the media, a hacker took advantage of a vulnera… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2018
Following further investigations, Currys PC World today confirmed 10 million of their customer personal details may have been stolen by hackers, a revised number from the 1.2 million customers and 5.9 million payment cards it advised back in June.
In … Continue reading Latest on the Currys PC World Data Breach Impacting 10 Million Customers
The importance of assuring the security and testing quality of third-party provided applications is more than evident when you consider an NHS reported data breach of 150,000 patient records this month. The NHS said the breach was caused by a… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for July 2018
Dixons Carphone said hackers attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards and accessed 1.2 million personal data records. The company, which was heavily criticised for poor security and fined £400,000 by the ICO in January after been hacked i… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for June 2018
I’m sure the release of the GDPR on 25th May hasn’t escaped anyone’s attention. After years of warnings about the EU parliament’s intended tough stance on enforcing the human right to privacy in the digital realm, a real ‘game changer’ of a global priv… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for May 2018