Equifax nears $700 million settlement of probes into data breach
Equifax is poised to reach a roughly $700 million deal to settle investigations into its massive data breach, in line with what the credit-reporting company
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Sprint Data Breach Due To Samsung.com Bug Revealed
U.S. telecom giant, Sprint has recently revealed that a certain number of Sprint customer accounts were taken over by unauthorized users using a loophole in
How Big Data Provides A Pivotal Foundation For VPN Data Security
Americans are overwhelmingly concerned about online privacy. In December, a poll found that only 8% of Americans did not support any type of data protection
Does Facebook “Libra” Illustrate The Dark Side Of Big Data?
Big data has had wonderful implications for our lives. However, there is a dark side. Big data raises very valid privacy concerns. Tech Republic wrote
Why PCI DSS Compliance Is Important For Smartcards?
As more and more people are conducting their everyday financial transaction needs through the use of smartcards, that is the reality on the ground. People
Will Facebook’s Libra force Congress to act on data protection?
WASHINGTON — Almost two years after the Equifax breach led to a congressional uproar but minimal policy change, the protracted fight to enact data security
Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation
After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into
Dr Margaret Cunningham from Forcepoint appears on this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast
In my third and last podcast from Forcepoint in Cork, I talk to Dr Margaret Cunningham a Principal Research Scientist at Forcepoint. Dr Cunningham talks
How to Encrypt Your Drive With BitLocker in Windows 10
Encrypting your hard drive is one of the easiest and fastest ways to increase your security. Windows 10 has a drive encryption program built in.
Derek Murphy Forcepoint’s Senior Director of Software Development appears on this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast
In my second podcast at Forcepoint in Cork, I talk to Derek Murphy Forcepoint’s Senior Director of Software Development. Derek talks about what he does for Forcepoint,
Nicole Petersen from Forcepoint appears on this episode of the Irish tech News Podcast
Last month I went down to Cork to visit the new offices of the cybersecurity company Forcepoint. They have recently moved into the South Mall
Auxilion’s New Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Service to Mitigate Digital Transformation Risk for Irish Organisations
Auxilion, a specialist in Digital Transformation and an award-winning provider of I.T. services, for public and private organisations in the UK and Ireland, is launching
Third-party compliance most challenging aspect of GDPR one year on
Research conducted by BSI’s Cybersecurity and Information Resilience centre of excellence has revealed that monitoring of third-party compliance is the most challenging aspect of the
The Biggest and Most Affected Data Breach
There were many data breach 2016. It seemed like there was a new one in the news every other week during that year. From a
What Is a SaaS Company Business Model and Benefits
We’ve often heard about it, but what is a SaaS company? SaaS means “Software as a Service,”so basically, this is an organization or a business