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TalkTalk data breach: two criminal hackers jailed

IT Governance

Two Tamworth men have been jailed for their part in the 2015 cyber attack on TalkTalk that saw the personal information of 156,959 customers compromised. The then-17-year-old – who could not be named because of his age – was fined £85, given a 12-month rehabilitation order, and had his hard drive and iPhone confiscated in December 2016.

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The damaging after-effects of a data breach

IT Governance

46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber breach in the past 12 months and and the International Data Cooperation predicts that a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach by 2020. With the number of data breaches increasing every year, they are now a huge issue for organisations.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 198 – News of the week

Security Affairs

France watchdog fines Google with $57 million under the EU GDPR. Expert shares PoC exploit code for remote iOS 12 jailbreak On iPhone X. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Critical flaw in Linux APT package manager could allow remote hack. Did you win at online casinos?

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Weekly podcast: Carphone Warehouse, USB drives, VTech and Patch Tuesday

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 12 January 2018. In 2015, Carphone Warehouse suffered a cyber attack that compromised the personal information of three million customers, including their names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, marital status and, for more than 18,000 of them, payment card details.

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The damaging after-effects of a data breach

IT Governance

46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber breach in the past 12 months and it’s been predicted that a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach by 2020. This figure will drastically increase when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect in May 2018.

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Weekly podcast: Amazon, TalkTalk and City of York

IT Governance

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a personal data breach is defined as “a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of , or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed” (my emphasis).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Just Eat customers’ details dumped in Cleveleys alley as data watchdog warns of GDPR breach (unknown). South Africa’s Postbank replacing people’s cards after security breach (12 million). Germany seeks EU sanctions for 2015 cyber attack on its parliament. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.