Cloud and Infrastructure
Biometrics of one million people discovered on publicly accessible database
Biostar 2 database, used for access control by police, defence contractors and banks, found online unprotected and unencrypted
Valve updates Steam over escalation of privilege security flaw - but accused of ignoring other vulnerabilities
Gaping holes still exist in popular Steam app used by more than 90 million PC users every day, warn security researchers
NatWest trials home banking via Google Assistant smart speaker
Five hundred NatWest customers will be able to use voice recognition combined with PIN to confirm their identity
Facial recognition begins creeping roll-out across London with installation on Kings Cross estate and Canary Wharf set to follow
Question marks over GDPR opt-outs for facial recognition surveillance systems springing up across London
Salesforce to acquire ClickSoftware in $1.35bn cash and stock deal
Salesforce buys ClickSoftware for field service management and mobile workforce management cloud tools
Steam client zero-day vulnerability enables arbitrary code to be run with LocalSystem privileges
The vulnerability was reported to Valve Software but was rejected for being 'out of scope'
BA claims to have resolved the check-in system IT problems that caused around 100 flight cancellations
British Airways has resolved the IT issues that have kept its check-in systems down all day
Microsoft contractors are listening-in to Skype conversations
Used Skype's translation feature? Microsoft contractors may well have listened in on your call
Monzo log file security blunder forces PIN reset for 480,000 customers
Users of mobile bank Monzo will need to use cash machines belonging to conventional rivals to reset their PINs
Just Eat and Takeaway.com agree merger
Merger will create the largest food delivery company outside of China
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Github sued for encouraging hacking in Capital One data breach lawsuit
GitHub does nothing to stop hacked data and exploits from being uploaded, claims lawsuit
Amazon quizzed over AWS security following Capital One leak
House of Representatives committee plans to quiz Amazon over AWS security following Capital One data breach
Warning over boom in web skimming cyber crime targeting online stores
Malwarebytes claims to have blocked 65,000 web-skimming Magecart data theft attempts in July alone
Nationwide opens Digital Innovation Centre in London with plan to hire 750 tech specialists to support £1.3bn IT spending boost
Nationwide pushed into opening technology centre in London in a bid to tap the specialists it needs for digital transformation
Bulgarian authorities release CCTV evidence showing tax office hacker Kristian Boykov sending email to media
TAD Group founder Ivan Todorov implicated in audio recordings admitting that the company has hacked 49 entities to drum-up business
BusinessGreen Technology Festival slated for December launch
Inaugural BusinessGreen Technology Festival will unite corporates, investors and clean tech start-ups to help drive the next phase of green technology deployment
Netherlands' government: Staff shouldn't use Office due to privacy problems over telemetry
Report recommends against using Office Online or Office mobile apps over exfiltration of data
US Bill introduced to ban 'addictive' social media features
Social media sites would have to track how long people spend on their platform and lock them out after a certain period
Websites using Facebook's 'Like' button subject to GDPR data rules
Social media plug-ins, such as Facebook's 'Like' button, make a website operator a joint data controller, European Court of Justice rules
106 million US and Canadian Capital One accounts compromised
Former AWS engineer, named as Paige Thompson, arrested over Capital One security breach that took advantage of a misconfigured firewall to access accounts stored in S3 bucket
UK's Just Eat announces £5bn merger plan with Netherlands-based Takeaway.com
Just Eat shareholders would own 52 per cent of the merged company, under plans revealed today
Google and Facebook could be forced to disclose algorithms by Australia's competition watchdog
The regulator recommends creating a branch with more powers to monitor if tech firms use their algorithms to give precedence to their own products over that of rivals
WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins spared jail in the US over links to Kronos banking Trojan
Judge sentences Hutchins to one year of 'supervised release' and fines him $100 for each count as restitution for victims of Kronos
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