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T-Mobile hack is a return to the roots of cybercrime

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The hack of T-Mobile is more akin to smashing a window, grabbing merchandise, and running. The attack that exposed the personal information of millions of T-Mobile customers spotlights a common type …

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How to keep HR data safe from cybercrime

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Perhaps the first and most important thing to say is that you can mitigate the risk of data breaches significantly but simply limiting who has access to data.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant amount of upheaval for HR professionals. In these unprecedented times there have been complicated issues including staff being furloughed, remote working becoming increasingly common, and significant changes in the way that staff work.

The people in the business form its backbone, and HR professionals have been facing a balancing act of looking after the needs of the individuals across the company, and ensuring that the organization runs efficiently.

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Amongst all of these issues, there is the problem of cybercrime. Through the pandemic, cybercrime has been growing at an alarming rate. It could be assumed that this is a problem for the IT department, but in fact all elements of the business need to take it seriously. When you consider that HR staff deal with highly sensitive personal data, it is absolutely essential that they know how to keep it secure.

Why it is important to secure HR data

Facing a hack in any part of your business can be a huge challenge for any company, but in HR it can cause extremely serious trouble. If your HR department is breached, it can do irreparable damage to both the company as a whole and to the lives of the employees. HR data encompasses some of the most sensitive information that the company has on file.

This includes everything from addresses and contact details to bank account details and more. Europe’s GDPR and other data privacy laws are very strict about personal data too – so failing to keep employee data secure can actually result in your business being significantly fined. This means that you must take steps to keep your data safe.

Limit access

Perhaps the first and most important thing to say is that you can mitigate the risk of data breaches significantly but simply limiting who has access to data. If all members have staff have access on your system to all of the company’s HR data, then if any of them are breached, the cybercriminals can have…

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Cybercrime and hacking by hostile states demands a ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ – Stewart McDonald MP and Alyn Smith MP

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The first iPhone was released less than 15 years ago, boasting 2G internet and the ability to download a four-minute music video in just a few short hours.



Emmanuel Macron wearing a suit and tie standing in front of a crowd

© France’s President Emmanuel Macron changed his phone and number after he was reportedly targeted wit…


At that time, the internet was little more than a collection of blogs and chatrooms and the word ‘ransomware’ was unheard of by all but a small handful of people.

In the few short years since then, human society has undergone one of the most profound and rapid transformations in its history.

Our social existence – from working, shopping and socialising to dating and learning – has increasingly moved online, with each activity leaving a Hansel and Gretel-style trail of data in its wake.

News headlines today feature stories about ‘hack and leak’ operations or ransomware attacks, where hackers paralyse a computer system and hold its information at ransom.

Despite the ubiquity of this digital technology – the sheer volume of the data that we unthinkingly, and often unknowingly, share online and the speed at which it has become ingrained in every aspect of our daily lives, from arranging for food deliveries to organising patient records – international rules and norms governing cyberspace remain too patchy, to the point of rendering them effectively non-existent.

While the anarchy of the early internet was a large part of its appeal, today it represents a significant threat to our security and the global economy.

Indeed, just as we have moved our activities online, so too have hostile states and other malicious actors. Journalists and human rights activists can now be tracked without the need for someone sitting outside their home for hours on end and critical national infrastructure can be brought to its knees without the need for bombs or missiles.

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This month alone has seen the news dominated by cybercrime – attacks on Microsoft orchestrated by the Chinese state; the hacking and surveillance of the mobile phones of journalists, human rights activists and world leaders; and a series of ransomware attacks…

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Cyber Security Class: 1 Introduction. Learn Internet Security. CyberSecurity 101

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