Symantec Corporation, one of the world’s biggest data security providers, argues that the ever-changing IT landscape means that network managers, IT leaders and business managers need to move away from theoretical “ifs” and instead focus on the probabilities of “when and by whom” their network infrastructure will be attacked maliciously. (more…)

The National Cyber Security Centre, the UK Government’s top cyber security agency, defeats around 10 attacks a week – more than one a day. The majority of attacks are from ‘state-sponsored’ cyber actors. (more…)

The news that thousands of British Airways passenger information had been affected during a malicious cyber attack at the UK’s flag bearing airline. The firm reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office for investigation. (more…)

The troubled social networking giant, Facebook, was this week hit by a gigantic £500,000 fine from UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. The fine was due to serious data protection breaches and is the highest pre-GDPR fine possible. (more…)

The personal identifiable information of nearly 10 million Cathay Pacific airline users have been accessed illegally. The breach is one of the biggest in global aviation history. The leak has resulted in a massive data breach – one that has seen email addresses, passport numbers, expired credit card details and other important personal information being released. (more…)

If you sometimes have too many windows open and you need to clear things up and/or get back to the desktop view in Windows 10 as quickly as possible, here are a couple of tips that can help. (more…)

In partnering with the charity ‘Made by Dyslexia’, and in signing the Made by Dyslexia pledge, Microsoft has announced that it is the first company to sign a global pledge to help people with dyslexia. (more…)

No sooner had Facebook announced new rules to force political advertisers to prove their identities and their ad spend than an anonymous pro-Brexit campaign website with a massive £257,000 ad spend was discovered. (more…)

A pilot scheme involving NCR, the US self check-out machine maker for Asda, Tesco and other UK supermarkets, and Yoti’s digital identity app will use an integrated camera linked to facial recognition software to help improve, simplify and speed up age approval at self check-outs. (more…)

Figures from merchant services company Worldpay Inc show that for the first time, more payments were made in UK shops using contactless than Chip and PIN over the 12 months from June 2017. (more…)