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Marriott Hotels suffers fresh data breach, 20GB of information leaked

International hotel chain Marriott has suffered a fresh data breach, with cybercriminals claiming to have stolen 20 gigabytes of information…

UK council data breaches see information on vulnerable children leaked

Two local councils are under fire after personal information of dozens of children was leaked online. The data breaches could…

T-Mobile data breach could leave the company counting the cost

Millions of customer records have been stolen from T-Mobile US, the company confirmed this week. The data breach could turn…

The eye-watering cost of a data breach to organisations in 2020

Companies are forking out millions of dollars to mitigate the consequences of cyberattacks, according to research revealing the average cost…

Regulator Slams Poor Cloud Migration Risk Management, as Capital One Fined $80M For Data Breach

­Capital One Financial Corp has been hit with a $80 million fine after incurring a huge data breach one year…

Intel Leak: Exposed Akamai CDN Server and “intel123” Password Blamed

A misconfigured Akamai CDN (content delivery network) server and files with the password "intel123" have been pinpointed as the apparent…

Twitter Faces $250m Fine for Using Personal Data to Create Targeted Adverts

Twitter expects to be hit with a fine of up to $250 million over misuse of users' data that saw…

Weather Forecasting and Crunching the Ever Changing Data

Weather forecasting has not only gotten more accurate, but the manner in which it is delivered and who it is…

All That Cloud Data Is Causing Firms to Focus on the Wrong Security Issues

More than half of data is now stored in the cloud and its causing organisations to focus on security issues…

Marriott International Cites Insurance to Downplay Data Breach

Marriott International Inc. says the impact of the second major data breach it has reported in just 18 months will…