Vigilance can report that Researchers at City's Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) have won a £400,000 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant to carry out work in communicating and evaluating cyber risk to industrial control systems.
Last year, Black Friday took on a new meaning for many Americans when Target point-of-sale systems nationwide were compromised resulting in the theft of more than 40 million payment card numbers. Throughout 2014, companies including Neiman Marcus, Home Depot, PF Chang’s, Goodwill Industries, Supervalu Supermarkets, JP Morgan Chase, Sally Beauty Supply, and K-Mart also announced they had been breached. This frequency and scale have us all thinking “Who’s next?” As a result, you may be wondering, “What can I do to protect myself this holiday season?”
There's been plenty of hype this morning about Black Friday and this is only set to continue on Monday when Cyber Monday hits.
On Cyber Monday, the online retail environment will be confronted by a deluge of extra traffic, it is the biggest online retail day of the year. On Cyber Monday last year, the Adobe Digital Index showed online consumers spent $2.29 billion, and retail websites saw a 23% rise in visitor traffic. These statistics not only show the scale of Cyber Monday, but also the popularity amongst retailers and consumers.
BSI, the business standards company has revised its PAS (Publicly Available Specification) that safeguards food and drink against malicious tampering. PAS 96 Defending food and drink was first published in 2008 as a guide to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) which identifies and manages risks in supply chains.
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