Author Archives: Stewart
Favoured Website for Hackers to Dump Data is set to Take Action
Jeroen Vader, the owner of the website Pastebin.com has announced that he plans to hire extra staff that will monitor the content that is put on the website. The sole purpose of the new employees will be to scout around the website and reduce the amount of time that stolen data remains on the website. During recent times, Pastebin.com has become a favoured website with hacktivist groups such as LulzSec …
BTL Exhibiting at Business 2012
Backup Technology are attending the Business 2012 Conference (18th – 20th March) at the 02 arena in London and will be on stand D52. Representatives from BTL will be on hand throughout the event in order to discuss the advantages of our award winning services with business ambassadors from all sectors. In addition Rob Mackle, Senior Sales Manager and Ritchie Fiddes, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing will be …
The Value of Data
Consumer data is an extremely valuable commodity today and one which generates a huge amount of revenue for search engines and social networking sites alike. However questions continue to be thrown up of whether it is fair to utilise people’s data unwillingly. Facebook has a tool called ‘Friend Finder’ which came under huge attack in 2010 from the German data protection authority, VZBV. The German data protection authorities appear to …
UK Broadband Speeds Drop Dramatically During Peak Hours
A report that has been released by the comparison site Uswitch has revealed that UK broadband speeds drop by an average of 35% during the peak times of internet use. The researchers obtained the results by conducting two millions broadband speed tests. It has been revealed that the peak internet surfing times are between 7pm and 9pm and it is between these times where millions of internet users suffer from …
Shameful UK Internet Speeds
Akami just published the results of a survey which monitored 604 million unique IP addresses from 238 countries and regions. Asia dominated this contest with South Korea emerging top with an average 13.8Mbps connection speed. This was closely followed by Hong Kong with 10Mbps then Japan at 8.9Mbps. The UK had a shocker and trailed at 25th in the world with an average speed of just 5Mbps. It didn’t even …
CSO – good or bad idea?
Sony has appointed Philip Reitinger, as new chief security officer and senior vice president. It is one of many steps that the company is taken to improve their network security, following a series of high profile cyber-attacks. Computing magazine comments that ‘there has never been a worse time to be a chief security officer’. But since these attacks, security has been pushed to the top of the international agenda. Perhaps …
London Out-competed for Cloud Storage
Terremark decided to locate their flagship data centre in Amsterdam rather than London after concerns were raised regarding power shortages caused by the Olympic games. The data centre is going to be one of 50 which are to be dotted around Europe. Hermann Oggel, president of business at Terremark in a statement said: “London was full with the Olympics, with no power. And no power is a big issue.” The …
Sony: Bouncing Back
Sony has had a difficult year, not least because of the hacking scandal in April but also because of the earthquake in Japan as well as the London riots. Sony CEO Howard Stringer spoke at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin yesterday and highlighted the difficulties of the last 12 months, but was optimistic about the future. “This year at Sony we have been flooded, we’ve been flattened, we’ve …
The Importance of Data Privacy Today.
Gartner recently proclaimed that 50% of businesses will review their privacy policies before the end of 2012 in order to properly reflect changes in business practices. Traditionally it was enough for companies to tell customers their information was protected. However today companies require much greater assurance regarding data management. This has being confounded by new laws affecting mandatory breach disclosure. Today the public is much more aware of privacy as …
Tighter Data Breach Laws Required in Oz
Stricter laws regarding data breach notifications have been highlighted as one key aspect which needs to be tackled under a multinational joint plan outlined by the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Australia in particular, is a government which has been accused of not keeping up with developments. Nigel Waters, the former Assistant UK Data Protection Registrar commented, “The government has dragged its feet. I don’t think there’s any …
