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• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  APAC cyber security landscape to be more tumultuous in 2019

  Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  CIO interview: Stephen Docherty on NHS data sharing

  The Cambridge Analytica scandal raised awareness about privacy. Stephen Docherty, CIO of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, explains why

• November 26, 2018 26 Nov'18

  Unprecedented actions by Commons committee augur badly for Facebook

  House of Commons’ serjeant-at-arms effectively arrested the CEO of a US software company and frogmarched him to Parliament, where he was told he would be imprisoned if he failed to hand over papers on Facebook

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Police challenged over refusal to disclose files on WikiLeaks staff

  Lawyers will challenge the Metropolitan Police Service today to confirm or deny whether it holds correspondence with US law enforcement about three WikiLeaks staff – including two UK citizens – in a freedom of information tribunal

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  DeepMind won’t share patient data with Google ‘at this stage’, says company’s health boss

  Amid concerns and questions around Google’s takeover of the DeepMind’s Streams app, Dominic King, the company’s health lead, promises that ‘at this stage’, nothing will change, and it won’t share any patient data with the internet giant

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  EU regulation set to advance single market for non-personal data

  The European Union Council and Parliament have approved a regulation, to take effect in six months’ time, to ensure the free movement of non-personal data, such as IoT data, across the bloc

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Australia needs better cloud and data management capabilities

  Use of cloud services is soaring in Australia, but a lack of cloud management skills is holding back enterprises from reaping the full benefits of the technology

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Facebook emphasises security drive during third-quarter earnings call

  Social media giant admits it has a lot of work to do to keep on top of security as it looks to extend payment option to Messenger

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Australia’s data breaches are a ‘sign of naiveté’

  McAfee executive attributes Australia’s poor cloud security record to the lack of data protection measures amid “new and confusing” cloud configurations

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  DNS attacks cost finance firms millions of pounds a year

  Average cost of recovering from a single DNS attack is $924,390 for a large financial services company, survey shows

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Becrypt security platform helps ease cloud adoption

  Becrypt’s secure operating system is driving a new service aimed at helping organisations reduce cost and increase agility in using cloud-based services and online applications

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  'Sealed cloud' promises better data security

  TÜV SÜD’s Singapore Sealed Cloud does not grant administrators access to data, reducing the possibility of hackers breaking into databases using compromised administrator credentials

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names

  Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio