The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has, for the first time, issued the maximum fine permissible – £500,000 – to Equifax Ltd in response to a breach of the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998. The investigation into the September 2017 breach, …
Yesterday, GRC International Group Plc announced its financial results from the year to 31 March 2018. You can see the results announcement and shareholder presentation on our group website.
Just before the millennium, Steve Watkins and I wrote IT Governance: A Manager’s Guide with the specific intention of arming boards and senior managers with the tools to enable them to properly govern information security in their organisations. The book …
TV Licensing has assured 40,000 TV licence-paying customers whose contact and bank details were intercepted on the TV Licensing website that “the risk is low”. Really? If the risk is low, why also warn the victims that they should …
Recent ISO statistics show that the number of ISO 27001 certificates worldwide increased by 19% last year, to a total of almost 40,000. The UK grew at 34% and the USA at 36% – both countries that understand the need …
There are now two law firms putting together class action lawsuits against BA under the provisions of Article 82 of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which entitles data subjects to financial compensation for non-financial damages. If the 380,000 customers …
Carbon Black has today published statistics that emphasise what we’ve been saying for years: cyber criminals take their ‘profession’ seriously, they invest in skills and capabilities, and they’re outperforming their targets. That 92% of organisations admit to having been breached …
British Airways British Airways revealed on Wednesday that payment card records of approximately 380,000 customers had been hacked over a 15-day period from mid-August to early September. It was apparently told about the breach by a third party – in …
You may have seen the news that Arun Bhattacharya, a shareholder in the data analytics company Nielsen Holdings plc, is suing the company, its CEO and CFO for misleading shareholders and the public about its preparedness for the GDPR (General …
Risk IQ’s Evil Internet Minute infographic tells you the bad things happening every minute on the Internet: 5 successful ransomware attacks 9 phishing attacks 1,274 new malware variants 5,518 records compromised Any data you look at shows that the scale …
