It doesn’t show up on the main page, but a Google crawl of the Eircom Spiders site reveals that it has been hacked and is being used to sell Viagra and other prescription drugs. Dublin web expert Antonie Geerts was looking for the shortlists for the Awards this evening; he was surprised to see a Google results page offering […]
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Concern over Proposals to Fine 2% of Global Turnover for Data Protection Breaches [Video]
Last week, we brought you an interview with the Head of the Department of Justice’s Data Protection Unit, Séamus Carroll, who explained the negotiations currently under way among EU states to draft a new set of data protection standards, to replace the 1995 directive on which EU law is currently based. Mr Carroll explained that one of […]
Apple Most Phished Brand Says APWG
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released their Global Phishing Survey for the first 6 months of 2014 (PDF). According to their research Apple is the most phished brand on the ‘net: Apple’s brand and associated marques, such as iTunes and iPad, eclipsed perennial phishing target favorite PayPal with the computing device manufacturer enduring 21,951 of […]
New EU Standards Could Include Hefty Fines for Breaches of Data Protection Rules [Video]
Séamus Carroll is Head of the Data Protection Unit in the Department of Justice and Equality. He recently addressed a conference on cybersecurity organised by AON Insurance and held at the Convention Centre Dublin, on the subject of the new standards for data protection which are currently being discussed at EU level. Current legislation is in need […]
Stripe Capitalises on Twitter Buy and Apple Pay
On Monday Twitter announced that they are testing a ‘Buy button’, with a limited introduction beginning in the US. Stripe, founded by the Collison Brothers from Limerick, is one of five companies providing payment services for the new Twitter feature. On Tuesday, Apple revealed an NFC-based payment functionality for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone […]
Insurers warn of Cybersecurity Risks
Irish companies were today warned of the increasing risk of cyber security to their businesses at a conference held by Aon Risk Solutions, at The Convention Centre in Dublin. The company revealed its latest research on the subject, saying that it highlights severe vulnerabilities among companies operating in Ireland. Data based on inputs from over 1200 […]
Security Expert Brian Honan on the Paddy Power Data Breach [Audio]
Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
Heartbleed: Graphic Of *Some* Passwords You Might Want To Change
There’s been a HUGE amount of media coverage of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL this week and advice for users has been very mixed and at times quite confusing and even contradictory. Venturebeat published this graphic yesterday based on a Mashable article with a nice visual (via) of some of the affected (and unaffected) sites […]
Heartbleed: Don’t Rush to Change your Password unless Advised
You’ve probably heard about Heartbleed, the security vulnerability in a particular version of OpenSSL which was made public on Tuesday. Security expert Bruce Schneier described it as “catastrophic” On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11. The vulnerability allows an attacker to read up to 64k of memory from an affected system. […]
Gaelcoin Interview: a Cryptocurrency for Ireland [Audio]
Antonie Geerts is one of the founders of Gaelcoin, a new cryptocurrency with an Irish flavour, and he is our guest on today’s podcast (19:48, 11MB, MP3). Gaelcoin is based on Bitcoin, and limited to a total of 650 million coins. 1% have been ‘pre-mined’ and are being distributed free of charge to “Irish people”. […]