Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a data breach in 2015. Hackers gained unauthorised access to the personal data of more than three…
Year: 2018
SCADA mobile app security is getting worse
By John Leyden The security of mobile apps that tie in with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems has deteriorated over the last two-and-a-half years, according to new research.…
Taiwanese police give cyber-security quiz winners infected devices
Police have apologised after giving infected memory sticks as prizes in a government-run cyber-security quiz. Taiwan’s national police agency said 54 of the flash drives it gave out at an…
US man charged over 15-year spying campaign
An American man has been charged with allegedly spying on thousands of people via their computers for more than a decade. The US Department of Justice accused Philip Durachinsky of…
Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians
Indian officials in charge of a controversial biometric identity scheme have filed a police complaint after a report that citizens’ personal details were being sold for as little as 500…
If 2017 could be described as 'cyber-geddon', what will 2018 bring?
By Gordon Corera Scenarios once the province of thriller writers are now anything but fiction in the world of cyber-security. That is the lesson of the past year. It’s a…