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New Nominet initiatives to combat use of .uk domain names for criminal activities As some tech companies will unfortunately be aware, dealing with cyber criminals who register domains names similar to their brands for fraudulent activities can be time consuming, costly and involve reputation crisis management. However, it is also cost...

Keeping ransomware at bay: UK NCSC updates its malware and ransomware guidance The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently streamlined its guidance on how organisations can mitigate malware and ransomware attacks. Given Travelex's recent experience with ransomware and the new cyber risk created by the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Is reputation still king when it comes to a data breach? We always expected the GDPR to be a game changer in terms of raising the risk profile (and reputational impact) of data and cyber breaches, something demonstrated with yesterday’s news of the ICO’s intention to fine BA £183 million for its data breach. H...

Held to ransom in the digital age - what can financial institutions do? Recent research has shown that ransomware is not going away. In fact, researchers have warned that the type of cyber-attack in which access to critical systems, information and/or services is withheld until a ransom is paid to the attacker is becoming mor...

The death of email One of the biggest pain points for our lawyers is the vast number of emails they receive in any one day . Many legal tech tools we see look to do away with unnecessary emails - just one sign that the end of the email may be in sight. But as the article be...

Ransomware: should you pay? With recent research showing that the threat of large GDPR fines is encouraging UK IT directors to pay cyber ransoms (as reported in ComputerWeekly), and cyber attacks regularly hitting the headlines, it is hard for organisations to know how to respond to...

The dark side of IoT One industry where the Internet of Things (IoT) has really taken hold is Healthcare. The advances that have been made in recent years are staggering - we now live in a world where healthcare is moving from reactive to proactive and data from wearables, mo...

Corporate Update Bulletin - 7 July 2022 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates. Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments which we consider to ...

Corporate Update Bulletin - 6 April 2023 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates. Welcome to the latest edition of Corporate Update, our fortnightly bulletin offering a two-minute read of the latest develop...

Corporate Update Bulletin - 23 November 2023 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates. Welcome to the latest edition of Corporate Update, our fortnightly bulletin offering a five-minute read of the latest develo...