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Data breach incident management and recovery

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs

  Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  Home Depot under fire for data breach notification

  US retailer Home Depot criticised for delays in telling customers their payment card details may have been compromised

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

  Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Cyber Security Challenge UK takes on the internet of things

  The latest level of the Cyber Security Challenge will involve participants hacking devices connected to the internet of things

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Paddy Power hit by data breach in 2010

  Gambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Barclays passes government’s ‘internet-born threat’ test

  Barclays Bank has been awarded the government’s cyber security certificate for digital banking services after independent tests of services such as Pingit

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Security Think Tank: The dos and don’ts of a good incident response plan

  What does a good information security incident response plan look like?

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Domino’s breach underlines value of personal data, say experts

  The latest cyber breach to hit a high-profile brand underlines the high value of personal data, say security experts

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  eBay under fire over handling of data breach

  eBay is coming under increasing criticism over its handling of the data breach that exposed millions of user records

• May 21, 2014 21 May'14

  eBay reveals major security breach and urges users to change passwords

  eBay has revealed it was hit by a major cyber attack earlier this year, and is urging users to change their site passwords.

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything

  Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  US judge orders Microsoft to hand over email data held in Dublin

  A US Judge has ordered Microsoft to give the District Court access to the contents of one of its customer’s emails stored on a server located in Dublin

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Cyber threat detection paramount, says SANS fellow

  Cyber threat prevention is ideal, but detection is a must, says Eric Cole, SANS Institute fellow

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Datacentre lessons learnt from Heartbleed bug

  The Heartbleed bug, an OpenSSL flaw affecting millions of websites, has some lessons for datacentre providers and operators

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Law Society advises legal industry's IT teams over cloud

  The Law Society has published best-practice advice for legal firms' IT teams that are considering using cloud computing, following increased use of the cloud to store data

• February 05, 2014 05 Feb'14

  Bank of England publishes Waking Shark II cyber security exercise results

  Bank of England publishes the results of its Waking Shark II security exercise, which tested financial institutions' contingency plans for cyber attack

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  CERT-UK to drive international cyber security collaboration

  The UK’s new national computer emergency response team (CERT-UK) is set to drive international cyber security collaboration once it becomes operational

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Internet at risk of 'cybergeddon' says WEF

  Internet is at risk of fragmenting amid concerns over spying and cyber crime, says World Economic Forum

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  NSA uses secret radio tech to spy on offline computers

  The US National Security Agency (NSA) has the capacity to monitor, enter and alter data on computers even if the machines are not connected to the internet, it has emerged

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  More than 1,100 DWP workers disciplined over benefits snooping

  More than 1,100 employees at the Department for Work and Pensions have received official warnings since 2008 for prying into benefits records

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA

  A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Investec CISO warns that legacy tapes will fail on new hardware

  Many organisations may find that years of irreplaceable tape backups are inaccessible because modern machines cannot handle legacy format

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Mass surveillance a bad idea, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham

  Information Commissioner Christopher Graham says issues of national security must not overshadow concerns of legitimate public interest

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Analysis: RSA says security needs to change, but what does that mean?

  RSA executive chairman Art Coviello has issued a call to action to the security industry to improve technology and collaboration

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  MoD announces specialist programme to fend off cyber attacks

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a strategy to defend UK national security from the threat of cyber attacks

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Ex-hackers best qualified to improve cyber security say 70% of IT firms

  Over half of businesses are not taking IT security seriously enough and almost three quarters of IT professionals think ex-hackers could be the right people to help businesses improve cyber-security.

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Small businesses must encrypt customer data, says ICO

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) urges small businesses to encrypt customer data after a sole trader was fined for failing to do so

• September 06, 2013 06 Sep'13

  NSA and GCHQ unlock online privacy encryption

  UK and US intelligence agencies have unlocked the technology used to encrypt online services, including email, online banking and medical records.

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Disinfecting PCs false security, says security expert

  Many companies proud of their ability to identify and clean malware infected machines are missing a trick, says veteran security expert

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Box.com forges new cloud security model

  Service providers and consumers need to move to a security model better suited to the cloud computing, says Box.com

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Case study: Keeping it private at Beth Israel Deaconess after the Boston Marathon Attacks

  Doctor and healthcare CIO shares his lessons learned from the Boston Marathon attacks and how to protect patient data

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops

  Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Human error causes most data breaches, Ponemon study finds

  Human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, according to a study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Cyber criminals hack Washington court system

  Hackers gain access to the personal data of 160,000 US citizens after compromising Washington State court service servers

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security: Winners

  The winners are in for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security. See who made the top spots.

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  What’s to be done about data breach discovery?

  The time from first contact by cyber attackers to the victim learning of it is still measured in months and years, not hours and days

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Another online firm hit by data breach

  Online deals service LivingSocial is the latest company to report a breach of its computer systems that may mean attackers accessed customer details

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  Spam SMS messages drop following ICO penalty

  The number of spam SMS messages has significantly reduced since government regulator ICO issued £440,000 fines last year

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  UK government sets up cyber security fusion cell

  A cyber security “fusion cell” for cross-sector threat data sharing aims to put government, industry and information security analysts side-by-side

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Territorial Army on the hunt for information assurance professionals

  TA to recruit IT security professionals into the Royal Signals to strengthen cyber operations

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  What is RSA's build, buy, partner strategy?

  Computer Weekly takes a closer look at RSA's build, buy, partner strategy

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Twitter strengthens login security after hacker attack

  Days after a hacking attack, it has emerged that Twitter plans to strengthen its login security with two-factor authentication

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Twitter resets a quarter of a million accounts after hacker attack

  Twitter has reset the passwords of 250,000 accounts after detecting and shutting down a hacker attack last week.

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  ICO hits Sony with £250,000 data breach penalty

  The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe £250,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Nasa to encrypt data after latest breach

  Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 staff

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  Many UK firms underestimate cost of data breaches, study finds

  Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications and costs of data breaches, a study has revealed