All articles by Tom Ball

Tom Ball

Oxford and Cambridge Club hit by data breach as thieves break in

Remember to ensure physical security for your data is robust, hackers are thieves and often they will revert to traditional methods.

The History of Cloud

The thinking that brought cloud technology to life was first noted in the 1960s, and now the major enterprises of the world are ready to commit to it.

The Dark Web – drugs, guns, & $500,000 antique paintings?

Will the painting listed on the Dark web prove to be the real 133 year old Gottfried Lindauer painting?

Firefox to flag breached sites to boost user security

The plan is to provide notifications to users of recent and past data breaches, increasing transparency for heightened security.

Black Friday cyberattacks to break records as hackers enlist bots

Identity is central to this increasing problem, and it is available in abundance due to the massive data breaches that have rocked the world in 2017.

Symantec selects AWS for global cloud security delivery

Symantec is looking to leverage scale, analytics and machine learning by working with Amazon Web Services.

Hull – The City of Culture and cryptocurrency innovation

Hull is set to be the home of a new cryptocurrency project aimed at benefitting the local community, and it could spread nationwide.

Uber data breach scandal: A shocked tech industry reacts to the cover-up

$100,000 was the sum Uber was willing to pay to make its data breach problems go away.

Tether comes undone in $30m crytocurrency heist

Tether has stated that it is in a position to be able to identify the stolen currency and prevent it re-entering circulation.

Natwest online banking down, outage hits droves of customers

The outage has so far had a widespread impact across the United Kingdom, leaving customers unable to login to online banking services.