Global payment company Verrency has appointed former Paypal executive Dickson Chu to its global advisory board.

Companies involved in 14 major recent data breaches in Australia and the rest of the world — including human resources outfit PageUp People — did not even achieve a passing grade for the way in which they handled post-breach communications, the authors of a new book on breaches say.

Facebook has seen a massive decrease in the number of monthly page visits in the US, falling from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, according to a study by market research company SimilarWeb.