Retailers face huge fines for selling unsecure IoT tech
The UK Government is to force retailers, manufacturers and importers of Internet connected devices to meet tough new cyber security…
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Hooked on porn: Angling Direct snared by hack attack
Angling Direct, one of the UK’s leading retailers of fishing gear, has been hooked by a major ongoing hack attack…
Telegraph caught with trousers down on data security
The Daily Telegraph’s recent attack on Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s reign, in which the newspaper claimed she had chased headlines…
Security flaws allow cyber crooks to go back for more
Companies which suffer hack attacks are failing to address the issue, resulting in half of all businesses worldwide experiencing repeat…
Shot in the foot? Gun owners addresses leaked in hack
Gun-selling website Guntrader has fessed up to a major data breach affecting more than 100,000 customers, after the personal details…
First UK firm hit under GDPR has fine cut by nearly 70%
The Information Commissioner’s Office has suffered another setback in its enforcement of GDPR – now known as UK GDPR –…
Pearson to cough up $1m over data breach cover-up
UK-based Pearson Education has been ordered to pay $1m in the US to settle charges it misled investors about a…
UK launches new body for data science professionals
A raft of UK organisations, including the Alan Turing Institute, BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT and the Royal…
Charities told ‘It could be you’ in Lottery Fund breach
The National Lottery Community Fund, the organisation which uses money raised by the National Lottery to help communities in the…
CCTV footage of Hancock snog fuels data breach probe
The company which operates the CCTV cameras that recorded the damning footage of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and colleague…