Twitter hires veteran hacker Mudge as head of security
Peiter Zatko’s appointment follows mass attack on social media platform in July Twitter has appointed one of the world’s most respected hackers as its new head of security in the…
BA fined record £20m for customer data breach
Personal details of more than 400,000 customers accessed by hackers in 2018 A £183m fine levied on British Airways for a data breach has been reduced to £20m after investigators…
Financial institution of England paid £3m in ‘golden goodbyes’ more than 15 months
Rise in settlements within 2019 included those compensated to departing tech protection staff shortly before main breach The financial institution of England paid leaving staff almost £3m inside “golden goodbyes”…
Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack
US company forced to shut down call centres, website and some other online services Garmin down: how to still get your activities on to Strava Garmin has been forced to…