Businesses in the UK could face up to £122 billion in regulatory penalties for cybersecurity breaches when new EU legislation comes into effect in 2018, says the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

Crooks have injected malicious code into 5925 online stores, enabling them to steal payment card details, according to a Dutch developer.

Research has revealed that more than two-thirds of data management leaders say they have an effective data strategy and an effective approach to data cleansing and analytics, compared to around 10 per cent of laggards. However, there are as many laggards as leaders across most industries, revealing how many companies are falling short in data management. With research from CEBR[i] showing that the value to the UK economy of big data analytics and the Internet of Things combined could accumulate to £322 billion between 2015 and 2020, organisations are urgently seeking ways to overcome growing volumes and varieties of data to exploit its full potential.

Financial fraud in the first half of 2016 increased by a quarter to £399.5 million, enabled by scams and online attacks, new figures published today by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) show.

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System welcomed publication of the Group of 7 (G-7) Fundamental Elements of Cybersecurity for the Financial Sector.

Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Division, which includes the company’s financial services and corporate legal services business lines, has acquired US-based Vcorp Services, LLC. This 22 person firm is a provider of registered agent, UCC and other corporate legal services. The acquisition strengthens the Division’s “existing portfolio of legal and compliance products and services by furthering CT Corporation's reach into its core markets, including small and mid-sized law firms and corporations”, Wolters Kluwer GRC said in a statement.

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today published its “October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World,” a research report focused on DDoS attack and protection trends. The report highlights that DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to distract as “smokescreens” in concert with other malicious activities that result in additional compromise, such as viruses and ransomware.