Most businesses will be aware of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation coming into force in May 2018. Some outside of the EU may be disgruntled by the fact that they will also have to conform to the data protection rules if they process EU data. The Middle East has a large expatriate community, […]
Insider Threat: 74% of security incidents come from the extended enterprise, not hacking groups
New research by leading data security company, Clearswift, has shown that year on year cyber security incidents, particularly insider threats; continue to rise, but that companies are able to spot suspicious activity significantly quicker than two years previous. The research, which surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany […]
Mass-Scale ransomware attacks providing hackers the ability to earn quick money
During the past six months, the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) analysed more than 1,000 ransomware samples, categorising them into 150 families, and found the following: Attackers are looking to make quick, easy money with unsophisticated malware combined with sophisticated delivery methods. The majority of today’s ransomware aims to target the largest vulnerable population […]
Survey reveals nine out of ten businesses are not ready for new data rules
A survey by leading law firm Blake Morgan has revealed nine out of 10 businesses have still not made crucial updates to their privacy policies – a key requirement ahead of major changes to data protection laws. As time runs out to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the survey found many organisations […]
5 key areas that you won’t know are affected by GDPR
Before GDPR comes into full force next May, we’ve taken a side step and identified five of the not-so obvious, but key elements of everyday business that will be affected by this legislation. Loyalty cards It’s estimated that Tesco’s clubcard has 17million users alone, now think about all the other loyalty cards that exist. Loyalty […]
When androids attack: Protecting against WireX Botnet DDoS attacks
It appears Mirai may have some competition. And its name is WireX. Google recently removed roughly 300 apps from its Play Store after researchers found that the apps in question were secretly hijacking Android devices to feed traffic to wide-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) and content providers. […]
Personalising the customer experience post-GDPR
Whether signing up to social media accounts, paying bills online or making purchases, we regularly give up all sorts of data about ourselves, without giving a second thought to how it is being used or stored. And it’s not like this information is banal or unsubstantial, we’re talking about our banking information, contact details, address, […]
Automated call crackdown continues as ICO fines firm for 16.7 million illegal calls about boiler grants
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Coventry firm Easyleads Limited £260,000 for making 16.7 million automated marketing calls. It brings the penalties handed out in the last week to companies behind illegal recorded messages to £610,000, after the ICO fined Welsh-based Your Money Rights. Easyleads did not have specific consent from people that it […]
Private and unconfidential business need to go back to basics to protect against cyber threats
British businesses are running the risk of being hacked and having confidential data leaked, due to a laissez-faire attitude towards digital security. The news comes at a time when cyber threats are at an all-time high, GDPR legislation is coming, and businesses are exposing themselves to significant fines and risk reputational damage as a result. […]
Injecting GDPR compliance into our enterprise culture
The incoming EU regulation, GDPR, will bring with it a great deal of changes and challenges alike. Anyone with an interest in GDPR will have read, at least a dozen times by now, the strict level of compliance demanded by the EU in terms of data governance, regulatory compliance and information security. The fact that […]
Five ways to prepare your call centre for GDPR
Call centres have come a long way from purely recording calls for training and monitoring purposes. With the growing popularity of voice biometric technology, call centres can now collect new, crucial data points that businesses use to identify their customers. Because of that, it is imperative that the call centre is more aligned with other […]