The Importance of Data Protection in the Financial Sector
The financial sector is among the most data-intensive industries in the world. Financial institutions deal with vast amounts of sensitive information, including personal and financial…
Month: October 2023
Factors leading to organizations losing control over IT and security environments
Companies are challenged with the growing need to connect everything in their business while maintaining control over their security, productivity, and competitive growth, according to…
Making privacy sustainable: Incorporating privacy into the ESG agenda
Data breaches have been rising in frequency and magnitude over the last two decades. In fact, the Identity Theft Resource Centre (ITRC) found that between…
Tackling cyber risks head-on using security questionnaires
In this Help Net Security interview, Gaspard de Lacroix-Vaubois, CEO at Skypher, talks about the implementation of security questionnaires and how they facilitate assessments and…
Cybersecurity preparedness pays big dividends for businesses
Businesses are taking cybersecurity more seriously by boosting resources and preparedness, according to GetApp. US businesses on the whole are gaining ground against cybercriminals after…
AMP’s CTO is headed to Medibank – Strategy
AMP’s first group chief technology officer Felicia Trewin has made the switch to Medibank where she will lead data and technology functions. Medibank’s new group…
NSW EPA seeks digital strategy overseer – Strategy – Training & Development
The NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is expanding its digital capabilities and is hiring its first director of digital data and intelligence to take the…
Exim mail servers worldwide need urgent patches – Security – Software
Bugs in the popular Exim message transfer agent (MTA) software have exposed hundreds of thousands of systems to remote code execution (RCE). Since its role…
Malware once again a headache for npm – Security
Fortiguard Labs is warning of a bunch of malicious packages it found in Node Package Manager (npm), the largest JavaScript software registry. In an October…
Linux Vulnerability Exposes Millions of Systems to Attack
While Alpine Linux remains immune to the Linux vulnerability, system administrators are urged to patch other Linux systems. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has…
UK regulator to push for probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance – Cloud
British media regulator Ofcom will this week push for an antitrust investigation into Amazon and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK’s cloud computing market, according to…
Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit – Hardware
Meta is planning to lay off employees in the unit of its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on creating custom silicon, two sources familiar with…