Politicians in Westminster are under pressure to do more to for small businesses in Britain which are up against unprecedented levels of cyber-attack, new research shows. According to studies conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), one-in-five small businesses said they had been the target of a cyber-attack over the last 24 months. The […]
Posted on 7th August 2019 .
Consumer spending fell to a record low in July despite hot weather, according to new figures.
Posted on 6th August 2019 .
StockX, a sneaker trading platform, has reportedly been hacked, exposing more than 6.8 million customer records. On Thursday, customers received a password reset email, with a message attributing the reset to “recently completed system updates on the StockX platform.” The company did not explain further as to what caused the update, leaving customers confused. When […]
Posted on 6th August 2019 .
Half of organisations in the manufacturing sector are affected by cyberattacks. IBM’s X-Force IRIS incident response team published new research looking at recent cyberattacks they had assisted with. It was revealed that Industroyer, NotPetya, or Stuxnet, where three types of malicious code which had been designed primarily to cause damage, instead of data theft. The […]
Posted on 5th August 2019 .
Plans to create up to 10 free ports across the UK after Brexit have been revealed by the government.
Posted on 2nd August 2019 .
The Bank of England has cut its growth forecasts for the UK economy in the next two years.
Posted on 2nd August 2019 .
A database belonging to Jana Bank has been found open online, accessible by anyone. The non-password protected database had been discovered by researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, on May 26. The Elastic database, contained information including Know Your Customer (KYC) PII client information, wallet ID, usernames, emails, account and transaction data. Additionally IP addresses, pathways and ports were discovered, […]
Posted on 2nd August 2019 .
The government has announced an extra £2.1 billion worth of funding to help the country prepare for a no-deal Brexit.
Posted on 1st August 2019 .
The NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards has announced Companies House as its new national partner for the 2019 programme and the Young Entrepreneur of the Year category.
Posted on 31st July 2019 .
The chief executive of British Gas’ parent company Centrica, Iain Conn, is to step down from his post after the company posted a huge loss in the first half of the year.
Posted on 31st July 2019 .
New investment into the UK’s car industry has suffered a major decline in the first six months of the year.
Posted on 31st July 2019 .
The report concluded that most Member states have set up the necessary legal framework and the new system of strengthening the enforcement of data protection rules is falling into place. Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality stated how the General Data Protection Regulation provides businesses opportunities to “make the most of the […]
Posted on 26th July 2019 .
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