The roll-out of GDPR has impacted businesses worldwide. Forbes argues that it could be a gold standard for global businesses to improve data protection standards worldwide. They argue that data protection standards are needed and with a diversity of protection between different territories, using GDPR as a baseline could help…

The flag-carrying airline giant, British Airways, found itself in a spot of bother this week when its social media team asked for personal data to be relayed publicly via Twitter. The BA social media team asked customers for personal information in order to comply with GDPR. (more…)

Business services giant, KPMG, surveyed UK CEOs about cyber attacks and cyber crime more generally. The findings illustrate a changing shared attitude towards cyber criminality within the c-suite landscape. CEOs believe cyber attack prevention is about the “when” not “if” an attack will occur. (more…)

CISCO, the major IT networking giant, has launched Talos, an innovative technology that can help stop malicious attacks and therein the computational power theft that comes from blockchain crypto mining. CISCO believes the wild nature of cryptocurrency values has provided hackers with the motif for illegal crypto mining. (more…)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled a new consultation aimed at implementing the National Cyber Security Strategy as a means of developing the cyber security profession in the UK. The ever-growing threat of cyber crime has focussed the Government’s attention of the woeful unpreparedness of the UK…

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse after the inquiry sent a bulk email that identified victims. The inquiry was formed in the wake of the Jimmy Saville scandal to help investigate the extent of institutional child sexual abuse. The historic abuse inquiry was…

If in Windows, you want to stop your Recycle Bin from taking up storage on your drive, or stop anyone from recovering your erased data, there is a fast and easy way to bypass your Recycle Bin and go straight to permanent delete with unwanted files/folders. Here’s how: (more…)

A recent KPMG reports claims that whereas business spending on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning(ML) and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies is $12.4bn this year, it will increase to $232bn in 2025. (more…)

A new report by Code42 that surveying 1,634 senior company employees in the UK, US and Germany, has found that most CEOs take what they regard to be their Intellectual property (IP) with them when they leave a company. (more…)

The UK government has announced that, in a move to reinforce digital safety for everyone across the country, it will be expanding the scope of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) to cover the adult population too. (more…)