The 10 biggest corporate cyber security blunders

Sooraj Shah
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Revenge attacks, grudges and a phenomenal amount of lost data feature in this UK-focused list

People may be forgiven for thinking that cyber security blunders only occur in US organisations. After all, some of the biggest data breaches have taken place in the US; in the past few years the l...

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