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Consulting giant Accenture has acquired UK-based cyber defense consultancy Context Information Security from Babcock International Group. Accenture says it's not disclosing any financial terms, but aerospace and defense company Babcock revealed that it sold Context for £107 million, or roughly $140 million.
Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers' personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database. In a separate email to subscribers, shared with El Reg by dozens of readers, the telco expanded: "The database was used to manage information about our existing and potential customers in relation to some of our marketing activities. This included: contact details, technical and product information, including any requests you may have made to us using forms on our website. In a very small number of cases, it included date of birth."
Virgin Media, one of the UK's biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers' personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database. In a separate email to subscribers, shared with El Reg by dozens of readers, the telco expanded: "The database was used to manage information about our existing and potential customers in relation to some of our marketing activities. This included: contact details, technical and product information, including any requests you may have made to us using forms on our website. In a very small number of cases, it included date of birth."
Garrison is using ARM processor chips to create a hardware defense against data breaches and malware. Instead of relying on endpoint protection or user training to improve security, the UK-based security company Garrison wants to use hardware to prevent malware infections and data breaches.
The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 for leaky security that exposed the personal data of 9.4 million passengers - 111,578 of whom were from the UK. The breach, which occurred between October 2014 and May 2018, exposed passengers' names, passport and identity details, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and travel history, as well as 430 credit card numbers, 27 of which were active. The unauthorised access was first suspected in March 2018, when Cathay's database suffered a brute force attack, and confirmed in May. A Cathay Pacific spokesman said at the time that the combination of data accessed varied for each affected passenger.
A British judge on Thursday paused Julian Assange's extradition hearing following four days of intense legal wrangling over Washington's request for the WikiLeaks founder to stand trial there on espionage charges. The judge refused a request Thursday by Assange's lawyers to let him sit with his defence team, and not in the secure glass-walled dock area of the courtroom, when the hearing resumes.
Garrison wants to move security away from software and into hardware
Britain's Financial Conduct Authority on Tuesday admitted to a data breach, in an embarrassing revelation for the regulator and its boss, who shortly takes over at the Bank of England. The FCA said it had mistakenly published the details of around 1,600 consumers who had complained about the regulator, which is tasked with overseeing the conduct of Britain's key financial sector, including any data breaches by banks for example.
Samsung said Tuesday that a "Technical error" caused its website to display other customers' personal information. People who logged on were able to see someone else's name, phone number, address, email address and previous orders.
U.S. and U.K. officials are blaming the Russian military for launching an October 2019 cyberattack on the country of Georgia that crippled at least 2,000 government, news media and court websites over the course of one day. A few hours after the U.S. and U.K. released their statements about Georgia on Thursday, the New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials had recently warned U.S. lawmakers that Russia has already taken steps to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.