Collaborate Disseminate
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2020.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council became the latest UK organisation to become the victi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020
The sport of football is a multi-billion-pound global industry, where the world’s top-drawer football clubs push competitive advantages to the extreme, not just for the prestige of winning trophies, as success on the pitch also means a greater slice of… Continue reading The Billion Pound Manchester City Hack
A new, comprehensive code will compel online services to put children’s health and safety before data-collecting profits. Continue reading Privacy watchdog throws wider net to protect children online
Companies that fail to protect themselves online no longer need to fear only the bad guys lurking in the hidden corners of the internet. Increasingly, they need to worry about the good guys as well. The UK is one country leading this push to for… Continue reading British retailer fined half a million pounds for poor cybersecurity hygiene
DSG Retail, the parent company of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, has been fined £500,000 for a hack which lasted from July 2017 to April 2018.
But if its hack had lasted just one month longer, they could have expected a much MUCH larger penalty.
Continue reading Just one month later, the Currys PC World/Dixons Travel hack would have cost them a heck of a lot more
A lawyer who boasted of making “50 by 50” – as in, $50m by the age of 50 – is now facing a potential 50+ years behind bars. Continue reading OneCoin crypto-scam lawyer found guilty of worldwide $400m fraud
What are ICOs, why are they so popular and why do crooks love them so much? Continue reading Why do cryptocurrency scams work and how do you avoid them?
Invest in “binary options,” they said, neglecting to mention the software set up to rig transactions so that customers lost the gamble. Continue reading Founders of ‘worthless cryptocurrency’ ATM Coin fined over $4.25m scam
Four years after the news broke that the personal data of over 150,000 UK TalkTalk customers had been stolen, the cost of the breach, both financially and reputationally, is still being reported. In the past four years we’ve heard of larger and l… Continue reading What’s all the talk about TalkTalk?
July was a month of mega data privacy fines. The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) announced it intended to fine British Airways £183 million for last September’s data breach, where half a million BA customer personal records were compromi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for July 2019