Exposure to network threats and malware are still very high. By Tara Seals Executives, on average, use more devices, and access more sensitive data from their mobile devices, at all…
Month: September 2016
Europol warns of Android tap-and-go thefts
Law authorities have warned they believe criminals are using Android phones to trigger fraudulent tap-and-go payments. By Leo Kelion, Technology desk editor The alert comes in Europol’s annual Internet Organised…
Krebs Website Offline After Akamai Withdraws DDoS Protection
Krebs’ site hit by huge DDoS attack this week. By Steve Evans Brian Krebs’s KrebsOnSecurity.com website has been knocked offline after Akamai Technologies stopped protecting it from a sustained DDoS…
Google Deepmind: Should patients trust the company with their data?
Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind is getting serious about healthcare – with ambitious plans to digitise the NHS – but first it needs to convince patients to hand over their…
Plan now for the EU's privacy regulation revolution, says HPE exec
The EU’s personal data protection laws don’t change until May 2018, but HPE is launching its compliance tools now. By Peter Sayer The cost of complying with the European Union’s…
Yahoo 'state' hackers stole data from 500 million users
Yahoo says “state-sponsored” hackers stole information from about 500 million users in what appears to be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history. The breach included swathes of personal information,…