Yahoo UK has been awarded a £250,000 fine from Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a result of a 2014 data breach.

Mobile and remote working is causing data security issues for the UK's small businesses, with 18 per cent convinced their remote workers do not care about data security.

The UK has been named the most breached country in Europe, with 37 per cent of firms experiencing a data breach in 2017. Conducted by cyber security firm Thales, a recent survey of 400 senior security managers revealed that the number of breaches experienced by UK companies increased by 24 per cent on the previous year, up from 43 per cent to 67 per cent.

The latest report from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on the volume of data security incidents recorded in the first quarter of 2018, shows a growing problem.

Cyber criminals are still using cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and other oft-overlooked methods of entry to gain access to compromised users, a new study has found.

The number of days between a company discovering a data breach and disclosing it to stakeholders is decreasing but is still too high to comply with the requirements of the GDPR, a new report finds. According to an analysis carried out by Risk Based Security, the average time it takes for a business to report a data or security breach is still 37.9 days.

A new survey has revealed that 73 per cent of British businesses are unaware of their lawful obligations with regards to processing data ahead of the introduction of GDPR regulations on 25th May.

The world’s businesses are still at a high risk of attracting ransomware-based attacks, according to a new report. Despite the frequency of such events falling off towards the end of 2017, new research undertaken by security firm F-Secure finds that there has been another marked increase in ransomware events this year.

European law enforcement report that they have successfully shut down a popular attacks-for-hire website and arrested its administrators.

A new survey has estimated the financial impact of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at £35,000 – but there could be far deeper lying impacts on a company.