Data breaches in the UK across all sectors have increased an average of more than tenfold in the past five years, security firm Imation has uncovered. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) revealed the figures in response to a ...
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The European Commission (EC) is considering making it mandatory for companies to report cyber attacks to harness the benefits of open dialogue, says vice-president Neelie Kroes. Despite industry opposition, open discussion about cyber ...
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A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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6UK,the body set up to help UK organisations secure a competitive advantage through adopting Internet Protocol version 6(IPv6,)has disbanded citing government apathy to its work as the key reason. The not-for-profit organisation was set ...
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Microsoft has revealed to many of its partners a price increase that will see user client access licences (CALs) rising by 15 per cent. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of user CALs, which allow an individual user ...
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Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications of data breaches and estimate the costs of recovery accurately,a study has revealed. Of the UK companies that have not yet suffered a breach,58%told the Ponemon ...
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HSBC has restored its online banking services after a distributed denial of service(DDoS)attack. HSBC said servers had come under a DDoS attack which affected HSBC websites around the world. The DDoS attack on HSBC did not affect any ...
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Cyber crime costs UK organisations an average of £2.1m a year each, according to the 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study by the Ponemon Institute. The cost of attacks on UK organisations range between £400,000 and £7.7m, the ...
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The government's spy agency,GCHQ,is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The programme,dubbed Cyber Security for Business,will be the first time ...
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