The EU and US have agreed a new pact to make it easy for organisations to transfer data across the Atlantic. The agreement should head off the threat that both…
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Safe Harbour: Tech firms shudder as watchdogs meet
A meeting of EU data watchdogs is set to have wide-ranging ramifications for the way businesses handle data. Regulators need to decide how to act in light of a court…
A RAT and a spammer both avoid the slammer
Judges go soft on cyber crime as hackers evade behind bars. Darren Pauli Two US hackers have escaped prison, receiving probation instead of time in federal coolers. Blackshades remote access…
US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records
The medical records of nearly a million people have gone missing, a US health insurance company has admitted. By Kevin Rawlinson Centene Corporation said it was conducting an internal search…
US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records
The medical records of nearly a million people have gone missing, a US health insurance company has admitted. By Kevin Rawlinson Centene Corporation said it was conducting an internal search…
Hackers caused power cut in western Ukraine - US
A power cut in western Ukraine last month was caused by a type of hacking known as “spear-phishing”, says the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The attack caused a…