In Mid April Sony discovered their Playstation Network had been hacked and a load of personal detail had been well erm ‘shared’. At that point the number of people with details exposed was reckoned to be 24M. Fast forward to early May and the breach is encompassing more than the PlayStation network at Sony with [...]
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Increasingly more we are hearing the words cyber crime in the news but what are cyber crimes? The easiest way to describe cyber crimes is a crime committed over the internet, please see link below for more details and types of cyber crimes. We have all heard about someone we know bank account being emptied [...]
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 30 September
ACS:Law could face £500,000 fine for porn list leak. Yup a porn leak – £500k porn solicitors – ad lib anyone? Well I’ll personally be gobsmacked if there is a fine of any consequence. That siad it is good to see the ICO appearing to take a harder line on Companies appearing to play a [...]
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Really interesting article by Robert McMillan on just how private your private online sessions happen to be. Well actually if you are paraniod it isn't perhaps even as bad as you might have thought but it isn't good. Without stealing Robert's thunder it would be fair to say that on average it is 94% bad [...]
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By Stuart Macdonald in General on 20 April
Cyber attack on Google hit password system, says insider – 20/04/2010 – Computer Weekly. Bummer – looks like the old gmail account needs a password refresh! And not 3 months too soon… Don't be evil … might that include full and open disclosure on information breech? Thank goodness failure to disclose will most likely carry [...]
Hi, I mentioned earlier that some fines were likely to come in to law – well they just have. So if you haven't got your house in order you probably should be thinking about it. Whether you are governed by PCI, FSA or anything else this is the catchall – so make sure you are [...]
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 12 March
IBM scooped the Best Security Company at Secure Computing 2010 Awards. Click these here links for a full list of finalists and winners. IMHO this is cos IBM has been going all aquisitive on us and snapped up, it would appear strategically (well done guys), all sorts of niche solutions over the past four or [...]
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By Stuart Macdonald in General on 26 February
http://www.scmagazineus.com/ibm-report-vulnerabilities-fell-in-09-attacks-rose/article/164547/.
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 24 February
As I mentioned earlier the information commissioner's office has announced big fines (~£500k) for folks not getting their data security sorted out – web application or otherwise. I'd not be surprised to see at least 10 people get a big fine in the next 12 months and can imagine just what action will be taken [...]
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