Imagine you’re the UK Government in the middle of the biggest crisis the country has faced since World War II. How are you going to instill some confidence that citizens should install a new Coronavirus tracing app?
British broadband provider TalkTalk is being criticised for its poor handling of a security incident affecting its customers. No surprise there then.
Webpages vulnerable to SQL injection and software left unpatched for 3.5 years… ICO investigation reveals the shoddy state of security at TalkTalk.
Should the salaries of CEOs be linked to how well their company has protected itself against security threats? British MPs certainly seem to think so. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
TalkTalk spent £42 million in the aftermath of its hack, and lost 110,000 subscribers. And despite profits halving, it says it has “bounced back quite strongly.” Are consumers proving they have short memories?
TalkTalk offers defrauded customers a way to close their accounts without paying a termination fee… but check out the small print.
Remember, it’s child’s play for phishers to forge the from: address in an email. Never use a correct from: address as an indicator that an email is legitimate.
TalkTalk has said that it has received a ransom demand, after it suffered a hack which has potentially put the details of up to four million customers at risk.