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Spain levies maximum fine over Google privacy policy

23/01/2014 07:44
The changes Google made to its privacy policy triggered investigations by European data protection watchdogs Google has been fined 900,000 euros (£751,000) for breaking Spanish data protection...

EU calls for much bigger fines for data breaches

22/01/2014 20:10
The EU's justice commissioner has called for bigger fines for companies that breach European data privacy laws. Viviane Reding dismissed recent fines for Google as "pocket money" and said...

Millions of passwords and email details stolen in Germany

22/01/2014 20:05
The passwords and other details of 16 million email users in Germany have been stolen, the country's security agency has revealed. The Federal Office for Security said criminals had infected...

Microsoft in more hacking misery

22/01/2014 20:01
A Microsoft blog has been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army shortly after two of its Twitter accounts and another blog were attacked by the same group. The Office blog had just been redesigned...

Blackphone Promises NSA-Proof Smartphone

19/01/2014 09:45
By Stephanie Mlot January 15, 2014 10:40am EST     Ever since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the National Security Agency's spy games, the...

Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources - Reuters

18/01/2014 17:57
BY JIM FINKLE AND MARK HOSENBALL BOSTON/WASHINGTON Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:26pm EST (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the...

Privacy Fears Hit Retailers' Big Data Analytics Plans by Jeff Bertolucci

18/01/2014 09:50
Brick-and-mortar retailers plan to link in-store analytics with shoppers' mobile devices. Shoppers say not so fast.     Top 10 Retail CIO Priorities For 2014 (Click image for...

Target data breach could be costly for payment partners by Ross Kerber

16/01/2014 08:53
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer...

Software - the new battleground for carmakers by Edward Taylor and Ilona Wissenbach

14/01/2014 07:38
A BMW i3 electric vehicle is prepared for a display during set up for the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 4, 2014. CREDIT:...

Target Says Data Breach Affected Up To 70 Million Customers Sponsored by By Brian T. Horowitz

11/01/2014 08:52
Target has issued an update on a holiday-season data breach and says the debacle affected up to 70 million individuals, the company reported on Jan. 10. The retailer has been conducting a forensic...

U.S. study of automotive location data raises privacy concerns by Kate Kaye

11/01/2014 08:40
The government's research arm found that data-hungry in-car location services could use some improvement in the privacy and consumer notification departments. The Government Accountability Office's...

Financial Institutions Privacy and Security – 2013 Year in Review By Anne Foster and Gerald Ferguson

10/01/2014 13:48
Throughout 2013, financial institutions continued to face serious threats from cybercriminals targeting the personal information of banking customers and their financial assets through the use of...

Comment: Cybersecurity Lessons from the Financial Sector by Matthew Cohen, NT OBJECTives

10/01/2014 13:11
Creating a cybersecurity policy is hard, largely because it’s so difficult to define success. A national cybersecurity initiative should define the goals we want to achieve and provide incentives for...

Lessons learned from a Password Attack by Robert Siciliano

08/01/2014 19:30
It’s easy for millions of passwords to be stolen via hacking into Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts: It recently happened because malware was unknowingly downloaded into computers worldwide that...

Cyber attack on Northampton insurance firm ‘potentially affected 93,000 customers' by Ian Gallagher

07/01/2014 13:03
Northampton-based insurance firm Staysure has written to more than 90,000 customers warning them they could have been victims of fraud, after their card details were stolen in a cyber attack. The...

Eight hundred data breaches in Scotland over five years

05/01/2014 21:03
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, figures have revealed. They include patient notes being found in public places within NHS buildings,...

Companies More Vulnerable to Cyber Breaches Around New Year By Sarah Frier and Peter Burrows

05/01/2014 06:29
A string of cyber attacks over the holidays — involving Snapchat Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Skype and Target Corp. — underscore how companies tend to be more vulnerable to hacking during the end-of-year...

Cash machines raided with infected USB sticks By Chris Vallance

03/01/2014 22:22
Researchers have revealed how cyber-thieves sliced into cash machines in order to infect them with malware earlier this year. The criminals cut the holes in order to plug in USB drives that installed...

A Snapchat security breach affects 4.6 million users. Did Snapchat drag its feet on a fix? By Brian Fung

02/01/2014 18:32
Snapchat users are waking up to troubling news: Thanks to a gap in the service's security, the phone numbers and usernames for as many as 4.6 million accounts have been downloaded by a Web site...

Cyber Terrorism - Lloyds

02/01/2014 18:18
Industrial facilities from nuclear plants to dams are increasingly coming under attack from cyber terrorists bent on causing physical damage and disruption from behind their computer terminals. But...
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