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Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers were exposed in an open online database, the company confirmed Wednesday, in the latest example of Facebook’s past privacy lapses coming back to haunt its users.
Read MoreCPS Under Fire After Rise in Data Leaks
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is in the dock after recording a sharp rise in device losses, an increase in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data and rising electronic media losses. The government agency for criminal prosecutions in England and Wales made 1378 unauthorized disclosures of confidential data in 2018-19, up from 1329 in the previous […]
Read MoreTeletext Data Breach Exposes Over 200,000 Customer Phone Call Recordings
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Package Holiday firm Truly Travels exposed over 200,000 customer phone call recordings and data files on a publicly accessible server. Over 530,000 data files were discovered in an unsecured Amazon Web Services server. Of these files 212,000 were audio files that held recordings of Teletext customers who had contacted the firms India-based call centre.
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Police get facial recognition go ahead in world-first case
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
As the world’s first case against the controversial technology concluded, two leading judges dismissed the case brought by human rights campaign group Liberty on behalf of Ed Bridges, a Cardiff resident whose face was scanned by South Wales Police during a trial of facial recognition. Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, sitting with Mr Justice Swift, concluded that South […]
Read MoreBillions of IoT devices will come online by next year
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The number of internet-connected devices will jump by a fifth within a year, fuelled mostly by connected cars and utility devices. This is according to market analysts Gartner, which say we’ll have a total of 5.8 billion internet-connected devices by 2020.
Read MoreGoogle finds ‘indiscriminate iPhone attack lasting years’
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Security researchers at Google have found evidence of a “sustained effort” to hack iPhones over a period of at least two years. The attack was said to be carried out using websites which would discreetly implant malicious software to gather contacts, images and other data.
Read MoreOne-day security surgery service launched by Advent IM consultancy
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
UK security consultancy Advent IM is introducing a series of convenient one-day security surgery/workshop service for today’s organisations covering a range of cyber, physical and information security-focused issues.
Read MoreUK regulator issues fresh warning to ad tech players
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Two months after the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a hard-hitting report about the adtech industry’s misuse of personal data, the watchdog has revealed that “nothing” has been resolved at this point.
Read MoreCrisis control needed as incidents cost UK SMEs £8.8bn in 2018
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Crisis control is essential to tackle incidents, such as cyber-attacks and extortion which are costing UK SMEs billions of pounds a year.
Read MoreOver 50,000 UK SMEs Could Collapse Following Cyber-Attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Tens of thousands of UK SMEs could collapse following a serious cyber-incident which impacts their ability to trade, according to new research from Gallagher. The insurance and risk management giant polled 1120 senior decision makers from UK firms with up to 250 employees, in order to better understand the cyber-threat.
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