Cybersecurity Expert

It's not secret that the UK Data Protection Law is long overdue a major overhall. Today's data protection law was actually devised in the early 1990s, long before the Internet explosion, Google and Facebook didn't exist, while common day concepts like big data mining and cloud computing was even beyond the imagination of science fiction writers of the time. The UK Data Protection Act (1998) is mostly derived from the European Data Protection Directive of 1995 and the 1984 UK DPA. Back in 1995 there was barely one million internet users in the UK, since then the usage of digital personal information has massively changed, it is high time for our data protection laws to catchup. Human rights is a cornerstone of the European parliament's legal approach, with the right to privacy and the protection of personal data, regarded as a fundamental right for every EU citizen. For years European MPs have sort to introduce tighter privacy and data protection laws, how...

HeartBleed has suddenly become a very well known security  vulnerability, because this simple vulnerability in OpenSSL has turned out to be  one of the most critical and potentially devastating of all time, with over half million trusted websites said to be vulnerable . Over the last couple of days various security advocates and vendors have been lined up by  the media , with ominous warnings of grave danger online due to Heartbleed. Heartbleed is a Catastrophic Bug in OpenSSL - Bruce Schneier However I have generally found main stream media have focused far too much on trying to sensationalise instead of explaining the vulnerability properly, and not explaining how organisations should resolve the problem, and how users can protect themselves. It is fair to say the media coverage has led to much confusion on Heartbleed, with both organisations and users alike, which I’ll attempt to dispel. Heartbleed made Simple Heartbleed, also ...