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By Ross Brewer April 19, 2012
Research shows that UK businesses do not believe they have the capability to comply with new European Commission Data Protection Directive rules, specifically the ability...
By Ross Brewer March 29, 2012
A report published this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has revealed that the financial services sector is the most common target of cybercriminals, with cybercrime accounting...
By Ross Brewer January 25, 2012
Today, the European Commission published a new version of its Data Protection Directive. The new legislation installs a ‘mandatory data breach notification’ ruling across both...
By Ross Brewer November 24, 2011
News has broken today that 132 local councils in the UK have lost private data, with more than 1,000 data loss incidents occurring since 2008....
By Ross Brewer October 31, 2011
Research has just been released showing that UK consumers are increasingly concerned about the security of their personal data, following the high profile cyber attacks...
By Ross Brewer June 13, 2011
This weekend the IMF announced it had been subject to a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year. The hack was designed to create a “digital...
By Ross Brewer June 10, 2011
This week, ‘The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act’ was proposed in the US following a string of serious security breaches that compromised the sensitive...
By Ross Brewer June 03, 2011
Hacking group LulzSecurity (LulzSec) has announced that it has breached Sony’s IT defences, gaining access to the passwords, addresses and other personal information provided by...
By Ross Brewer March 08, 2011
France’s Budget Minister, François Baroin, has confirmed that the French Ministry of Economy, Finances and Industry has been the victim of a ‘spectacular’ cyber attack...
By Ross Brewer February 15, 2011
Visa last week announced a new programme which means European merchants will no longer need to prove they adhere to PCI DSS regulations on an...
By Ross Brewer January 27, 2011
CESG, the Information Assurance (IA) arm of GCHQ, warned government bodies this week that their failure to adequately monitor IT systems is putting sensitive data...
By Ross Brewer November 25, 2010
Research shows that UK consumers want tougher regulations for organisations that lose customer data. In a poll of 5000 consumers, four out of five respondents...
By Ross Brewer October 26, 2010
Hot on the heels of last month’s PCI compliance deadline for level one merchants, the standard is set to make the news again this week...
By Ross Brewer September 28, 2010
On Thursday 30 September 2010, the latest PCI DSS deadline kicks in, requiring all level one merchants (those processing more than six million transactions per...