The results of a new survey by analytics, business intelligence and data management firm SAS indicate that more than half of UK consumers look likely to exercise their new GDPR rights within the first year of GDPR’s introduction. (more…)

Google has announced that it will be adding a feature to G Suite that will let businesses/organisations know if their users are being targeted by a government-backed cyber attack. (more…)

The European Commission anti-competition ruling against Google that will force it to change its OS by unbundling the Google Play store and native apps could help other phone makers, but could also make the new ‘P’ version of Android’s OS less interesting. (more…)

The latest figures show that even though Amazon’s profits trebled last year, their UK tax bill has significantly reduced. (more…)

The latest figures from Apple appear to show that it has beaten tech giants like Amazon in the race to become the world’s first trillion dollar company. (more…)

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…