It’s the social media equivalent of bumping into someone as a pretext to asking them on a date. (Does anyone actually do that? In movies maybe? OK, forget it.) Yesterday Twitter sent emails to several (not all) Twitter users inviting them to try Twitter’s advertising platform which has been extended to all “small and medium […]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie Podcast with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. It’s our first show together since Conn joined Blacknight full time, and we talk a bit about how Technology.ie is being developed with additional content, in particular video. Michele is excited because Twitter have just announced that their advertising […]
Details continue to emerge surrounding the security breach involving customer’s financial data at LoyaltyBuild. The ESB has confirmed that 6,700 of its customers have had non-financial data compromised in the attack. According to The Irish Times: Loyaltybuild said the further data breaches, yet to be publicised, had only come to light late yesterday evening and […]
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin TD, has withdrawn the amendments to the FOI Bill which were introduced at a late stage last week. As the committee debate on the bill got underway, the Minister announced the withdrawal, citing the risk of “confusion and misinterpretation” of the intention of the amendments. The […]
Information security expert Brian Honan joins Conn Ó Muíneacháin to disccuss the issues surrounding the revelation this week that the full, unencrypted credit card details of 500,000 people have been stolen from LoyaltyBuild in Co. Clare. Brian Honan runs BH Consulting and is a founder of IRISS-CERT, the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service. IRISS-CERT is a voluntary […]
Here’s another video from the IEDR Net Visionary Awards in September. It’s a quick chat (less than a minute!) with Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect, winners of the “Speed of Light Award” for the Fastest Growing One to Watch. Loading the player … There have been so many events in the past couple of months that […]
The Irish Times is reporting that the Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has confirmed that the compromised credit card data at LoyaltyBuild had been stored in an unencrypted form – together with the 3-digit CVV number from the backs of the cards. When first reporting the breach last week, the company had claimed that all […]
Tá go leor ceisteanna inniu faoin sárú slándála ag an gcomhlacht LoyaltyBuild, inar goideadh sonraí na gcártaí creidmheasa le leathmhilliún duine ar fud na hEorpa. Tá fiosrúcháin ar bun ag na Gárdaí agus ag An Coimisinéir Cosanta Sonraí. Níl heol dúinn an scéal iomlán go fóill, ach tá beidh fiosrúchán an Choimisinéara dírithe go speisialta ar […]
The Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has sent inspectors to the offices of LoyaltyBuild in Ennis, Co. Clare, after it was revealed that the credit card data of 500,000 users in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe had been stolen. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, Mr Hawkes told Pat Kenny that the criminals obtained “full credit […]
I met Eoin Kennedy at the Realex Fire Irish Web Awards and he told me all about CongRegation – the social media unconference he’s organising in Cong, Co. Mayo on 30 November. “You can’t get tickets for this”, he warned. “You have to blog your way in.” Sounds like a novel approach. The basic idea […]
