A consumer watchdog said Tuesday that one of the country’s largest grocery chains allegedly used data collected from loyalty shoppers to build often incorrect secret profiles of them and sell their information to other companies.
The head of the cybercrime unit at the National Crime Agency says the investigation into cyberattacks on British retail companies is not focused on a specific group, for now.
British retailer M&S reported that a recent cyberattack will have a £300 million impact on its operating profit “before cost mitigation, insurance and trading actions.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declined to provide specifics on what would be removed from the nation’s leading cybersecurity agency in light of the Trump administration’s proposed $491 million budget cut to the organization.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.