Lewis Morgan Archive
The shortest month of the year is over in a flash, but not before a significant number of data breaches and cyber attacks could take place. I count this month’s total of leaked records to be 873,919,635, bringing 2019’s total …
This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Hello, and welcome to the IT …
In this week’s podcast we discuss Facebook’s VPN, an Apple FaceTime bug being discovered and the end of Internet Explorer 10 Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 31st January 2019. Neil is unfortunately off sick today, …
The first of this year’s monthly lists amounts to an impressive 1,170,983,728 leaked records, which – let’s be honest – isn’t the greatest start to the year. Although there will be some debate about the usefulness of including the 772,904,991 …
Google has announced yet another data breach affecting its Google+ social network. This incident is separate to the one that came to light in October, which prompted Google to announce that it would shut Google+ down – a decision that …
The question and answer site Quora has released information about a data breach it recently suffered. A post on its website reads: “We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of …
This week, we discuss the latest fines for Uber in connection with its 2016 data breach, GDPR complaints against Google, and the other side of the City of York Council ‘hack’ story. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast …
Last month I thought I’d try something new, so I focused on three stories rather than putting together a long list of breaches. It wasn’t a very popular approach. So the list is back. I count this month’s total of …
It appears that Amazon had a bit of a problem – and it very nearly went unnoticed. An unknown number of Amazon customers reported yesterday and today that they had received an email from the online retail giant (see below). …
Contact lens supplier Vision Direct has released information about a data breach it suffered earlier this month. “Between 12.11am GMT 3rd November 2018 and 12.52pm GMT 8th November, the personal and financial details of some of our customers ordering or …
