One in five Brits has fallen victim to cybercrime in the last year, with a similar proportion having had their bank details stolen and used to make purchases November 23, 2015 One in five (22 per cent) Brits has fallen victim to cybercrime in the last year, according to a survey released today by security software company Norton by Symantec. The survey of more than 1,000 UK consumers also found that 44 per cent of people had suffered a cybersecurity incident at some point in their life. “We no [...]
Paris attacks: Government to ramp up terrorism and aviation security against Islamic State in wake of Friday night’s attacks November 16, 2015 The UK government has said it will "substantially" increase counter-terrorism resources against the threat posed by Islamic State as part of its five year security review, which will be unveiled next week. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce huge cuts across government departments as part of his Comprehensive Spending Review, but Number 10 revealed this morning [...]
The UK and US governments just conducted a huge cyber terrorism drill to test the resilience of the FCA, Bank of England and Treasury November 12, 2015 The UK and US governments have conducted a huge joint exercise, along with global financial firms, to see how well we'd respond to a "cyber incident" in the finance sector. The drill involved participants including the Bank of England, the Treasury, the Cabinet Office and the Financial Conduct Authority, the chancellor said today. The exercise [...]
I let myself be hacked by an ethical hacker and this is what I learned about cybersecurity November 4, 2015 Let me tell you this: it’s quite a disconcerting feeling to sign a form agreeing to let a hacker break into all your personal data. Even when it’s an ethical one. I’d agreed to let cybersecurity expert Ollie Whitehouse do his worst, and access as much of my information online as possible. But waiting to [...]
British Gas customer login data leaked in third personal data incident in a week after TalkTalk cyber attack and Marks & Spencer technical glitch October 29, 2015 The account details of as many as 2,000 customers of British Gas have been leaked online, in the third high-profile personal data leak in less than a week. Email addresses and passwords to login to British Gas accounts were posted on the text upload website Pastebin, but the company believes the information leak was not as a result of [...]
TalkTalk cyber attack: Cybercrime UK’s single most common offence October 27, 2015 Last week’s cyber attack against telecoms firm TalkTalk has brought cybercrime back to headlines – and new figures show it is by far the largest single type of crime in the UK. Last year, 2.5 million cyber crimes and over five million cases of online fraud were committed in England and Wales, a figure recently [...]
TalkTalk cyber attack: Chief Dido Harding receives ransom email after customer’s personal data hacked October 23, 2015 TalkTalk chief Dido Harding has received an email containing ransom demands from people claiming to be behind a massive cyber attack which could have affected up to four million customers. Harding said she had personally been contacted by someone purporting to be the hacker "looking for money" she told the BBC. "If you're a cyber-criminal the days of [...]
Industry view: Adoption and collaboration are key to defeating the cyber threat September 15, 2015 Cyber-crime is now one of the most serious threats to businesses and national economies. It is rare that a week goes by without a story breaking about a business that has suff ered a cyber-attack. Already this summer in the US, Jeep Cherokee told customers to update their cars after hackers crashed a vehicle, having [...]
Faceless fears: no one hears you scream online – it is far too distant and anonymous September 15, 2015 Opening shots René Carayol THERE IS rarely a business bulletin nowadays that doesn’t mention a significant successful fraud. This is of course not the full picture, as most businesses and many consumers do not feel compelled to report their perceived lax controls. It’s now nearly always a sophisticated cyber-attack or the now more prosaic online [...]
Carphone Warehouse draws data watchdog probe after millions of customer details hacked August 10, 2015 The UK's data watchdog is investigating a huge data breach at high street retailer Carphone Warehouse which has put millions of customers at risk. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is "making enquiries" into the attack in which the private information of more than two million customers, such as card details, addresses and dates of birth, [...]