Pub apps harvesting swathes of customer data unnecessarily

Food and beverage-ordering apps run by Mitchells & Butlers, the company behind chains such as All Bar One, Browns and Harvester, as well as pubco Greene King, have emerged... Read more »

IT leaders fear ‘trickle-down’ of nation-state cyber attacks

Almost three-quarters of IT executives are concerned that the trickle-down of cyber attack tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by nation state-backed actors will impact their business, according to... Read more »

MoD seeks security tech to harden military systems

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a new Innovation Focus Area, or IFA, to seek out and develop technologies that will reduce the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s)... Read more »

Global VPN downloads soar in first half of 2021

As stringent internet restrictions were continuously ratcheted up in the first half of 2021, virtual private network (VPN) downloads have sky-rocketed to 616 million, according to data based on... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Data privacy and ethics in a post-Covid world

Over the past 17 months, business operations and consumer demand have changed for ever. The transition to remote working has been swift and more permanent than anyone would have... Read more »

Educational publisher Pearson fined for data breach cover-up

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed a $1m fine on London-based educational publisher Pearson to settle charges that it purposely misled its investors over a 2018... Read more »

Security Think Tank: Building privacy-preserving apps and platforms

Digital applications and platforms have become an essential feature for organisations, even more so since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions imposed on the public. Organisations... Read more »

Nearly half of retailers hit by ransomware in 2020

Around 44% of retail organisations were hit by a ransomware attack in 2020, and more than half of those affected (54%) said cyber criminals had succeeded in encrypting their... Read more »

When is SIEM the right choice over SOAR?

Gartner defines security information and event management (SIEM) products as technology that aggregates event data produced by security devices, network infrastructure, systems and applications. According to the analyst firm,... Read more »

Cyber Runway programme supports new security businesses

A new government-supported scheme to support the UK’s growing cyber security sector will offer new security firms offered business masterclasses, mentoring, product development support, networking events, and backing to... Read more »
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