Britain's privacy watchdog has proposed a record-breaking $230 million fine against British Airways for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation due to "poor security arrangements" that attackers exploited to steal 500,000 individuals' payment card data and other personal details.
Together with President Donald Trump and the EU Copyright Directive, the U.K's Internet Services Providers' Association has nominated Mozilla as one of its three nominees for "internet villain" of the year. Its purported crime has been to advance a more secure version of the domain name system.
Visibility, or a lack thereof, continues to challenge organizations as they attempt to protect their businesses by knowing which systems, applications and data they have, says AlgoSec's Jeffrey Starr. He discusses how centralized visibility, control and automation can help.
Want to improve how your organization delivers and absorbs security awareness training? Then it comes down to reinventing your approach, including gamification, says Barracuda's Michael Flouton.
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Digital transformation impacts the way that organizations deal with cybersecurity risk, says Tim Wilkinson of Avast Business, who provides advice on how to place security at the center of the transformation.
The fallout from the 2015 TalkTalk hack continues as a 22-year-old U.K. man was sentenced to jail Monday for his role in the attack and other cybercrimes, including an attack against his former school.
Similar to security deficiencies often found in the U.S. healthcare sector, weak security controls and practices are putting Australian patient data and hospital services at high risk for serious cyberattacks, according to a new government audit.
Criminal gangs have been hitting e-commerce sites hard lately by injecting their malicious code to "skim" customers' payment card details. In a recent twist, Malwarebytes spotted a malicious iFrame that steps in front of the normal payment process to intercept card details.
ScarCruft, a Korean-speaking APT group that has been targeting organizations mainly in Southeast Asia over the past three years, is developing new malware that targets Bluetooth-enabled devices, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Facebook is warning users of its WhatsApp messaging app to update immediately to fix a flaw that is being used to remotely install Pegasus surveillance software from Israel's NSO Group. WhatsApp says a "select number" of targets were hit by the attacks, which it has blamed on "an advanced cyber actor."
Security awareness training helps educate organizations and prepare its people to defend against today's most threatening cyberattacks. But, sometimes well-intentioned strategies can have unintended consequences. Leveraging a "one-size-fits-all" solution may work for maintaining compliance, but what happens when a...
The modern data centre is increasingly a heterogeneous mix of environments and technologies that combine physical servers, virtual machines and containers in on-premises facilities, private clouds and public cloud IaaS providers. Organizations are constantly shifting data and workloads among them as traffic levels and...
To advance at the pace of innovation, your enterprise has to embrace the latest security methodologies without adding unnecessary complexity or risk. Learning micro-segmentation best practices will help you choose the right path for security for your business and allow you to successfully implement a project that will...
With IT environments more complex and dynamic than ever, micro-segmentation is the clear choice for isolating communication flows and hardening your security posture. The right provider should help you accurately visualise and map all of your application flows and dependencies and then enable micro-segmentation...
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