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Google in €50m GDPR fine appeal bombshell
2019-01-24 15:35

Didn't see that coming Google is to appeal the €50m fine handed down to it by the French data protection agency earlier this week.…

Link Found Between GreyEnergy and Zebrocy Attacks
2019-01-24 15:21

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) have found significant overlaps in GreyEnergy and Zebrocy activity, both of which were...

Rise of multicloud: 58% of businesses using combination of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
2019-01-24 14:57

Multicloud is much more popular than hybrid cloud, with only 33% of professionals using a hybrid model, according to a Kentik report.

Cisco Studies Global Impact of GDPR
2019-01-24 14:48

Cisco is out with findings from its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which shows the impact of GDPR compliance as well as how customers are asking more questions about how their data is secured....

IoT credential compromise attacks open your devices up to spying
2019-01-24 14:44

Security updates for the lifespan of a given device are critical to protecting your connected device against hackers, according to a Barracuda report.

Police Arrest €10 Million IOTA Cryptocurrency Theft Suspect
2019-01-24 14:18

Scheme Offered 'Free' Website for Generating Cryptocurrency Wallet SeedsPolice in England have arrested a 36-year-old man as part of an investigation into the theft of at least €10 ($11.3 million)...

Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs
2019-01-24 14:11

Perpetrators are using smaller, bit-and-piece methods to inject junk into legitimate traffic, causing attacks to bypass detection rather than sounding alarms with large, obvious attack spikes.

World's favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)
2019-01-24 13:32

Still afraid of no ghost? You didn't read the script Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy took a "random look at the new release" of Ghostscript, and turned up a vulnerability that works...

Photos: The top 10 computer security applications of 2019
2019-01-24 13:20

These apps will help keep your enterprise safe from malware and other cybersecurity threats.

Bomb threat spam may stem from GoDaddy DNS weakness
2019-01-24 13:15

A bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week.