UK ISP TalkTalk fined £400,000 over ‘easy’ 2015 hack
British ISP TalkTalk has received a record £400,000 (USD $510,000) fine for a breach that exposed personal data of over 155,000 customers.
British ISP TalkTalk has received a record £400,000 (USD $510,000) fine for a breach that exposed personal data of over 155,000 customers.
With even Australia recently copping a 12Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, network operators need to hold Internet service provider (ISP) customers to higher security standards to ensure they don't compromise the integrity of increasingly-important cloud services, a senior security analyst has warned.
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Francis Trentley was the CIO of the White House during the George W. Bush administration and oversaw that office's biggest ever technical transformation. Today, he is the Senior Director at Akamai Technologies. At the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, he delved into the ever-evolving cyber-threat-landscape and examined how traditional defences need to evolve.
Anthony Caruana | 03 Sep | Read more
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the permanent closure of an Internet service provider long accused of hosting and distributing spam, spyware, child pornography and other illegal content, at the request of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Grant Gross | 20 May | Read more
The owner of a Dallas-based Internet service provider that was raided last April has been charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud more than US$15 million from companies such as Verizon, AT&T and XO Communications.
Robert McMillan | 13 Jan | Read more