A test performed by so-called ‘Ethical Hackers’ in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute found that the hackers could get through the cyber-defences of 50 major universities – and considering the sector saw 1,000 major cyber-attacks in 2017/18 this ability to access highly valuable information was shocking. (more…)

Huawei, the mobile telephony and electronics conglomerate, has been branded a “long-term security risk” according to the National Cyber Security Centre – which is part of the Government’s listening spy agency GCHQ. (more…)

The ICO has fined Newham Council in London a massive £145,000 after the council emailed 44 recipients (both internal and external stakeholders) with an unredacted copy of the Metropolitan Police Service updated Gangs Matrix database. The database had the names, addresses, ages, alleged gang allegiances and criminal convictions. (more…)

The Information Commissioner’s Office has successfully prosecuted Grove Pension Solutions Ltd who were responsible for sending out 1,942,010 spam emails all of which promoted their core pension services. Unusually, however, was the detail of the outcome. Grove Pension Solutions had in fact engaged with a privacy consultant and lawyers before embarking on this marketing campaign. (more…)

The ‘Noted’ app is a fully-integrated audio recording and note-taking app that can help you to keep track of meetings, interviews, lectures and more.  The app records audio, while also allowing you to type out notes which have rich text and image support.  These notes are automatically time-stamped with easily searchable “time tags”, and the recordings + accompanying notes can be synced through iCloud, organized into notebooks, and quickly searched through. (more…)

Next week will see the introduction of automatic compensation, without having to ask, for customers of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Zen Internet who experience delayed repairs, installations or missed engineer appointments. (more…)

In an attempt to be more transparent and give more control to its users, Facebook is about to roll-out a new “Why am I seeing this post?” tool, which will give users insights into their newsfeed algorithm. (more…)

After espionage chiefs from the ‘Five Eyes’ agreed last July that they would try to contain the global growth of Chinese telecom Huawei (over fears that it was spying for China), a new report from the Huawei Cybersecurity Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) says that the company is still not fixing previously identified security problems. (more…)

Security experts are warning companies with a Magento e-commerce site to make sure that it has the latest security patch and updates in order to avoid the risk of card skimming attacks. (more…)

Research teams at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Tu Wien in Austria have discovered security vulnerabilities in the TLS browser encryption defence system of 5.5% of 10,000 HTTPS sites which could leave website visitors vulnerable to attack. (more…)