The IT Governance Podcast

This week, we discuss companies falling foul of existing laws while attempting to comply with the GDPR, problems for Warcraft and Minecraft players, and a bot attack affecting gift cards on nearly 1,000 websites.

This week, we discuss the arrest of a Lithuanian man over a $100 million phishing scam, an indictment against the alleged perpetrators of the Yahoo breach that compromised half a billion accounts, a number of vulnerabilities affecting LastPass's browser extensions, and the ICO's warning to local councils to prepare for the GDPR

This week, we discuss new reports from KPMG, Beaming and the NCSC, which cover a huge increase in cyber fraud, the massive business cost of phishing, and how to fight the "significant and growing" cyber threat.

This week, we discuss the re-emergence of the Shamoon/Disttrack malware, a new trove of CIA documents from WikiLeaks and "numerous security vulnerabilities" in an app used by President Trump's aides.

This week, we discuss the Cloudbleed bug, a breach affecting CloudPets, and the latest news from Yahoo.

This week, we discuss a large-scale cyber-reconnaissance operation, a former system administrator who caused $1 million of damage, and access problems at the US Department of Homeland Security

This week, we discuss yet another Yahoo breach, a university attacked by its own Internet of Things network, and a WordPress vulnerability that leaves blogs open to defacement.

This week, we discuss a hack that Sports Direct didn’t tell its staff about, a spate of malware attacks against enterprise networks, and 150,000 printers churning out ASCII robots.

This week, we discuss a Florida telemarketing company leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive files, Google apparently mistaking the NHS network for a botnet, 11 charities breaching the data protection act, and the demise of LeakedSource

This week, we discuss a cyber attack on England’s biggest NHS trust, the appointment of Rudi Giuliani to a White House cyber security committee and new research into the biggest threat to critical infrastructure (hint: for once it’s not cyber attack).

This week, we discuss the reappearance of the exposed Hello Kitty database, a warning from Action Fraud about ransomware attacks on schools, and an unsecured airport system leaking passenger data.

This week, we look at the biggest stories of the year.

This week we discuss the compromise of another 1 billion Yahoo records, the sentencing of the boy responsible for the TalkTalk breach, and Ashley Madison's $1.6 million settlement

This week, we discuss a massive data breach at Dailymotion, a very serious data breach at Europol, and the Met Police's novel way of bypassing iPhone encryption.

This week, we discuss suspicious activity on online National Lottery players’ accounts, 900,000 Deutsche Telekom routers knocked offline by the Mirai botnet, and a ransomware attack on the San Francisco transport system.

This week, we discuss a jackpotting malware attack that caused cash machines across Europe to spit out cash, a WordPress RCE vulnerability affecting 27% of the web, and a data breach affecting more than 133,000 Three customers.

This week, we discuss the 17-year-old who admitted to last year’s TalkTalk cyber attack, the compromise of more than 400 million ‘adult’ accounts, further news about the Tesco Bank breach, and a $1 million fine for Adobe Systems.

This week, we discuss the government’s confirmation that the GDPR will apply in the UK, the online theft of £2.5 million from 9,000 Tesco Bank Current accounts, and the youngest ever winner of the Cyber Security Challenge.

This week, we discuss the launch of the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy for 2016 – 2021, a malware attack on Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and how a cyber criminal was caught by the FBI

This week, we discuss theMirai botnet DDoS attack that affected the Dyn Managed DNS service and, with it, many household names, plus mega breaches compromising the personal data of millions of Weebly, Modern Business Solutions and FourSquare users.

This week, we discuss new cyber crime statistics released to mark Get Safe Online Day, a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows machines, and the arrest in Prague of a Russian man in connection with a number of high-profile cyber attacks – including the 2012 LinkedIn hack.

This week, we discuss American 1 declining Wendy’s transactions for poor security, criminals using gaming currency to launder money and new strain of ransomware DXXD.

This week, we discuss a record ICO fine for TalkTalk, new encryption for Facebook, and state surveillance of all Yahoo Mail

This week, we discuss the compromise of 2.2 million teens' i-Dressup accounts, the aftermath of the massive 2014 Yahoo breach, and cyber security advocacy campaigns ECSM and NCSAM.

This week, we discuss a new Cisco vulnerability, a remote attack on Tesla cars, and the implications of the new Insurance Act on cyber security insurance policies