Virgin Media announced on March 6th 2020 that up to 900,000 customers personal details have been compromised due to a Virgin Media data breach. The marketing database in question had been left accessible since April 2019 until now March 2020, when the error was noticed by a researcher from security firm TurgenSec. Virgin Media have issued an email to any affected customers of the data breach in which they confirm that no passwords or financial details were on the database. Unfortunately, email...
The CEO of Google has recently made a statement regarding the regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Sundar Pichai has expressed concerns about the negative consequences of AI (artificial intelligence) alongside the numerous benefits that this technology brings. Furthermore, he asks for international cooperation to ensure it is harnessed for good. AI is also known as machine intelligence. It is used to describe machines that mimic the human mind, such as learning, problem-solving, speech...
Firstly, what is a credit score? A credit score is how companies view you when applying for credit with them. They want to assess your reliability and creditworthiness. It can be quite tricky to define a single ‘good credit score’. This is because there are 3 leading Credit Reference Agencies, all of whom will score you differently. These companies are: Experian- score out of 999 Equifax- score out of 700 Transunion (formerly Callcredit)- score out of 710 In addition to the differing ways of...
The ICO (Information Commissioners Office, the UK’s data regulator) has drafted proposals to help keep children safer when online. Under these proposals, unveiled 21st January 2020, websites will be forced to do more to protect the safety and privacy of minors online. Named the Age Appropriate Design Code , it is hoped to come into effect by autumn 2021 if approved by parliament. Any firms disobeying these rules could be fined up to 4% of the company’s global turnover. The move has been...
