Dave Lee Ride-sharing company Lyft, seen as Uber’s biggest rival, is investigating an anonymous claim that employees were abusing customer’s private data. The allegations, posted online, suggested that employees looked…
Month: January 2018
Bell Canada Canucks it up again: Second hack in just eight months
Subscriber database plundered by miscreants once again By Iain Thomson Executives at Bell Canada have been left with faces redder than their nation’s flag – after their subscriber database was…
Trend Micro in New Hacktivist Warning
Phil Muncaster A new report has warned that traditional lines between hacktivists and cyber-criminals are blurring and could disappear altogether in some cases, fuelling more damaging ransomware and data theft…
IT 'heroes' saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation bliz
4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs and 2,500 apps all rebuilt, while other staff went manual By Richard Chirgwin It’s long been known that shipping giant Maersk suffered very badly from 2017’s…
Alphabet unveils business unit devoted to cyber security
Paresh Dave SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc launched a new business unit on Wednesday that will sell cyber security software to Fortune 500 companies, the latest move by the…
Major UK cyber attack is 'when, not if', says security chief
A major cyber attack on the UK is a case of “when, not if”, says the head of the National Cyber Security Centre. Speaking to the Guardian, Ciaran Martin said…