Lloyds Bank has started replacing debit cards for certain customers. Those who were affected by the British Airways hack and the Ticketmaster attack are being given new debit cards to help minimise the impact of cyber-crime.

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HSBC was affected by a major hack in October 2018, unveiled this week by the company. The hack only affected 1% of the entire bank’s client base. The bank has started to contact all those impacted by the news. The company announced: (more…)

The network services giant, CISCO, has accidentally outed an exploit within its communications platforms and products. The so-called Dirty Cow flaw within Linux varieties creates an Apache vulnerability that impacts on Cisco TelePresence Video Communications services. (more…)

Hiscox, the insurer, has found that nearly 50% of SMB’s believe their businesses are not realistic targets for cyber-crime. This is a worry. The Ponemon Institute found that employee negligence was the root cause of the majority of cyber crime incidents. Furthermore, 47% of SME/SMB businesses have been targeted. These could be elaborate ransomware attacks to email phishing breaches, all of which are real threats to SMB’s in today’s digital landscape. (more…)

If the bookies are right, the next Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, Diane Abbott MP, was the latest victim of an email phishing scam. The Shadow Minister is responsible for data security, cyber-crime and intelligence gathering was taken in by an IT tech support email phishing scam. She is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. (more…)

The Information Commissioners’ Office has published a new report investigating the role played by data analytics in political campaigns. The “behind the scenes” algorithms, that the ICO argue are vacuuming up personal information has created an unregulated and invisible process that is harming the wider body politic. (more…)

With the new Windows 10 update and the new ‘Cloud Clipboard’ feature, you can avoid losing text that you’ve copied, see a history of the text and images you previously copied (via the new Cloud Clipboard feature), and even pin frequently used content to the clipboard permanently. Here’s how to use it: (more…)

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has begun a consultation about the introduction of new BDSQs [Basic Digital Skills Qualifications] that are designed to improve the digital skills of adults across England. (more…)

NatWest bank is reported to be testing a new app-based banking platform called ‘Mettle’ that combines banking with other business services, and is specifically aimed at the needs of SMEs. (more…)

At its conference in Barcelona, VMware (tech subsidiary of Dell Technologies and CO2 emission-reducing evangelist) has announced that it has introduced a beta version of blockchain-as-a-service. (more…)