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Matthew Hanley and Connor Allsopp from Tamworth sentenced over data theft Two friends have been jailed for their roles in hacking the telecommunications company TalkTalk. Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth in Staffordshire, admitted charges relating to the huge breach of customer details in 2015, which cost the company £77m. Related: … Devamını oku

Ads by secretive organisation Mainstream Network may have breached personal privacy rules A secretive group that has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds encouraging voters to back a hard Brexit is being investigated by Britain’s data watchdog, it has emerged. MPs had already raised concerns about the activities of the anonymous Mainstream Network group, whose … Devamını oku

Attacker tried to sell certain materials on the internet but shipbuilder insists there is no evidence of theft of national security information Defence shipbuilder Austal’s Australian business has been hit with a data breach and extortion attempt but insists there is no evidence of theft of national security information. Some staff email addresses and mobile … Devamını oku

Airline confirms passport numbers, email addresses and credit card data were accessed The airline Cathay Pacific has announced that it has suffered a major data leak affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. The Hong Kong flag carrier admitted that personal information including passport numbers, identity card numbers, email addresses and credit card details had been … Devamını oku

Damian Collins says Scotland Yard must explain failure to look into potential crimes committed by three pro-Brexit groups A senior Conservative MP has demanded that Scotland Yard urgently explain why it has not opened a criminal investigation into three pro-Brexit campaigns that the Electoral Commission found had broken the law. Damian Collins, chair of the … Devamını oku

Company didn’t disclose leak for months to avoid a public relations headache and potential regulatory enforcement This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers … Devamını oku

Facebook missed serious holes in their security system. Their incompetence warrants outrage Less than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal launched a privacy reckoning, Facebook is back in the news over yet another data breach, this one a security breach affecting almost 50 million accounts, leaving many wondering, again, how safe their personal info … Devamını oku

The digital debate is now about trade and security – and every major nation is insisting on its technological sovereignty Amid the hand-wringing about the rise of nationalism and populism, it’s easy to miss that the past two years have also produced surprising and useful shifts in global opinion. Even Donald Trump can be good … Devamını oku

The disrupted cyber-attack on the chemical weapons watchdog and allegations of a sophisticated Chinese hardware hack have highlighted the dangers The farcical aspects of the attempted Russian cyber-attack reported by the UK and the Netherlands on Thursday must be satisfying to those who counter such efforts, and are superficially amusing to any observer. It is … Devamını oku

Human rights group boycotts Home Office consultations on vast cloud system, saying they are a sham A new super-database being built for the police represents a “grave” risk to privacy, a leading human rights group has said. Liberty claims the government is glossing over concerns that the database, the largest built for British law enforcement, … Devamını oku