Cyber Security

It has been announced that Timehop, a mobile app that surfaces old social media posts from the same day but from previous years, have had a security breach affecting its entire user base of over 21 million users, not all users were affected to the same extent, however.

It has been announced that Touch Biometrix, a fingerprint technology company, has been awarded Technology and Commercial Feasibility (TCF) funding from the Welsh Governments £63.4m SMARTCymru programme. 

Payment innovator Alcinéo has chosen Trustonic Application Protection (TAP) to protect its mobile point of sale (mPOS) apps. This will enable banks around the world to offer Alcinéo’s mPOS solutions to their business clients, providing them with the ability to accept payments on mobile devices safe in the knowledge that their customers’ data and payment credentials are protected to the highest level.  

Imagine a city the size of London thrown into chaos, as public transport grinds to a halt and traffic lights stop functioning. This is no longer the stuff of nightmares or the scenario of a disaster movie, but a prospect that is getting more likely every day.  Author: Catherine Bischofberger, Writer and Technical Communications Officer at the IEC

Over the last few years, the frequency and severity of cyber attacks and breaches has exponentially risen. So much so, figures by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) shows that 53% of UK firms now consider a cyber attack as the main threat facing them in the near future.

In today’s digital economy, it is essential that companies of every size can collect, store and adequately protect customer data and proprietary secrets. Failure to do so will significantly damage a company’s brand and reduce the quality of the product it produces, with concomitant impact on revenues and profitability, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Availability of a range of expert data security products to help companies comply with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been announced by RS Components. These include products from 3M, Kingston Technology and the company’s own RS Pro range.

Though consumer-level drones have received a lot of bad press in recent times - near misses with aircraft, incidents where members of the public have been injured and flying contraband into prisons - within the defence sector, the high end versions of this technology has the potential to save lives.  By Giorgio Potenza, Strategic Market Manager for High-Rel Systems, Harwin.

The security of data has been a hot topic in recent months. The EU’s roll-out of new GDPR regulations, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, or the seemingly weekly revelations of financial institutions or consumer service providers which have had their databases hacked, are all examples most of us will be aware of. Author: Arturo Maqueo, Regional Sales Engineering Director LATAM, Flexenclosure

A solution designed to reduce cyber security risk across today’s converged IT/OT environments has been announced by Tenable. Enhancements to the Tenable.io platform, an asset discovery and vulnerability detection solution for Operational Technology (OT) systems, delivered in partnership with Siemens, enables organisations to manage cyber exposure across IT and OT and effectively prioritise remediation based on the criticality of the asset a...