In light of the breaking news that European data center services giant Interxion is informing customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects, below are comments by two of the UK's top cyber security experts:
It’s been a long time coming, but the new EU data security and privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is close to being finalised. We’ve been tracking the GDPR through all its ups and downs over the last two years, as it progressed through the EU legislative process. At this point there are two versions of the GDPR, one from the Council and the other from the Parliament. The stakeholders are now working out the final language. You can read this post from our friends at the IAPP to learn about the latest compromises. If all goes to plan, an agreement is expected to be reached by the end of the year.
A malvertising campaign has been using a free digital certificate it acquired from certificate authority, Let’s Encrypt. The cybercriminals had compromised a legitimate website and set up a subdomain that led to a server under their control, wrote Joseph Chen, a fraud researcher with Trend.
The CIA is looking into whether Russian Hackers were to blame for the cyber attack on the Ukrainian power grid. Experts say this is a first of a kind and may be a bad omen for attacks on other power grids around the world including our own.
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