The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into the extent to which businesses are using customer data to target consumers with personalised prices. In July, Computing looked into the proposition of companies such as ...
Tags: OFT, consumer data, investigation
Phishing attacks are moving from targeting a few key employees in businesses to much wider groups of employees, according to corporate security awareness training company PhishMe. "Once they are in, attackers are using what they learn ...
Tags: Phishing attacks, PhishMe, security awareness, detections systems
Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. He described how companies have always been aware of ...
Customers of AWS public cloud are reaping the benefits of cost savings, elasticity and scalability, but many are still wary of putting sensitive applications in the cloud, despite having a "cloud-first" and "cloud-ready" strategy. At an ...
Tags: AWS public cloud, cloud-first, cloud-ready, Amazon
Managing financial information is, by far, my least favorite part of being in business for myself. Dont get me wrong, I like the money, but time tracking, invoicing, bill collection, monthly statements, and expensesall a necessary part of ...
Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. The CSA launched its STAR program ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, Cloud Security, STAR, CSA
Europe's top data privacy agency has launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's privacy policy. Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party that it would proceed with a probe.On ...
Tags: Microsoft, Investigation, Top Data Privacy Agency, Data protection
AdamsQB, a leading QuickBooks consulting firm, headquartered in Austin, TX and providing small businesses in Dallas and San Antonio QuickBooks innovations, has unveiled its plan to include Intuit's GoPayment mobile payment application to ...
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SAP has made its HANA in-memory database available on Amazon Web Services at an hourly rate, giving customers and partners a new way to try out the platform quickly without investing in hardware and perpetual software licenses, the company ...
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The technique of using deception and manipulation to gain sufficient knowledge to dupe an unwary individual, employee or company into revealing personal information has the potential to be one of the biggest security threats in 2013 ...
Tags: big data, cloud, Gartner, social engineering, Windows
Big data analytics has the potential to reduce the growing number of cyber security risks and increase business agility, says a report by the Information Security Forum (ISF). According to the Data Analytics for Information Security ...
Tags: ISF, big data analytics, cyber security risks, business agility
According to Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of software tools company Software AG, the time for big IT transformation is over. People no longer buy exciting IT. Rather, IT must compete for investment. The question is, where will this investment ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, Barcelona, Digitisation
Customers and end-users are having the wool pulled over their eyes by organisations that fail to report data breaches, according to Simon Bain, CTO of document management firm Simplexo. The EU information security agency Enisa recently ...
Tags: data breaches, arrogant firms, customers
Telefonica and Vodafone are partnering in the UK to extend network infrastructure to reach 98% of the UK population. The partnership will rival Everything Everywhere, which formed in March 2010 following the merger of Orange and T-Mobile ...
Tags: Telefonica, Vodafone, network infrastructure, UK
The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...