Dixons Carphone said today that it had suffered a massive data breach involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million … Read More
BCC is really difficult…
Ghostery, UK councils, and vitamin sellers all falling foul of GDPR, by sending list of e-mail contacts in CC rather … Read More
FBI seizes domain behind massive botnet
The FBI has seized a domain linked to what’s believed to be a Russian botnet composed of around 500,000 infected … Read More
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) fined £325,000 by the ICO for losing unencrypted DVDs
On 18 November 2016, the CPS received a package of 15 unencrypted DVDs from Surrey Police. Those DVDs contained recordings … Read More
Durham school paid out £1,500 in ransom money after cyber-attack
In April 2017 a computer virus encrypted the Durham Sixth Form Centre college files. The County Durham school confirmed it … Read More
Hotel door locks vulnerable to hack
Researchers say flaws they found in the equipment’s software meant they could create “master keys” that opened the rooms without … Read More
European electrical grid fixed, 6 minutes brought back
Last month, the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) publicly admonished Serbia and Kosovo for not properly balancing their … Read More
IT meltdown causes national government shutdown
Sint Maarten, which used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles, and has a population of just over 42,000, has … Read More
New Privacy Settings Announced by Facebook
Facebook has claimed that an overhaul of its privacy tools is the answer to the problems faced by people trying … Read More
Facebook boss, Zuckerberg, refuses MP summons on data misuse
The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 20th March 2018 to summon him … Read More