Ericsson Software Issue Knocks Out Mobile Data for O2, SKY and Tesco

Outage hits up to 11 countries

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Google Ratchets Up Attack on EU Copyright Directive

"Effectively, companies like Google will be put in the position of picking winners and losers"

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Fileless Attacks Grow as Attackers Find New Ways Past System Security

"These sophisticated attacks avoid detection and maintain persistence by borrowing the propagation and anti-forensic techniques seen in the complex nation state attacks of the past"

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Black Hat Europe: You Can be Lucky if You’re the First to Be Attacked

“We learnt the importance of political decision making, having cyber security high on the political agenda"

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Insecure IoT Networks Spew 200+ Million Messages in 16 Weeks

"These protocols weren’t designed with security in mind..."

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MasterCard and Microsoft to Develop “Universally Recognised” ID System

The press release doesn't say "blockchain" but a whitepaper does...

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Criminal Investigations into “Hacking” Soar

"Hacks into email account of victim and accesses social media of victim (snapchat) thereafter alters information within and posts false and embarrassing threads in the name of victim"

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Make Virtual Assistants Pay: Five KPIs for Improved User Experience

"Chatbots can do more than answer questions; they can help convert enquiries into purchases"

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Marriott International: Hackers Accessed the Records of 500 Million Users

“There are two components needed to decrypt the payment card numbers, and at this point, Marriott has not been able to rule out the possibility that both were taken"

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RapidSpike Identify Themselves as White Hats in the York Council Breach

"Accessing the app ‘Leaderboard’ screen caused the API to push the app’s top-ten users’ personal data, in plain text, to the app"

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