MailGuard Blog

It’s my mission, both as an entrepreneur and a communicator, to help businesses protect themselves from cybercrime.

The cost to companies from cyber-attacks is growing at an alarming rate at the moment. Part of that problem is that there are still senior decision-makers in companies who don’t understand the devastating impact cybercrime can have on a business.

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The big story this week in the IT media has been the scandal surrounding Uber and their attempts to conceal their massive data breaches.

On Wednesday MailGuard CEO and author Craig McDonald published a blog post analysing the missteps the Uber company made handling their cybercrime crisis

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The shocking news about Uber’s data breach woes just keeps on coming. After reading Stephen Little’s Independent article ‘Uber data leak hit 2.7m UK customers’ I felt compelled to break my silence on this issue.

I don’t like to heap criticism on an already embattled company, but the latest revelations about Uber’s unethical behaviour has made them fair game for critique, I think. Uber’s handling of their ongoing cybercrime crisis has landed them in a situation where they are now dealing with a legal battle and a public relations meltdown as well.

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