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The news is filled with stories nearly every day of things going awry in technical systems: security, privacy, abuse, ethics […]
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Employees are almost as dangerous to business security as hackers and cybercriminals
Non-malicious insiders are among the top three threat actors, according to an ISACA report. Employee mistakes and system errors are […]
Only 0.25% of reported data breach cases fined under GDPR
Data requested by digi.me shows that of 11,468 data breach cases closed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) since GDPR’s […]
GDPR: Europe Counts 65,000 Data Breach Notifications So Far
European privacy authorities have received nearly 65,000 data breach notifications since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation went into full […]
Companies’ Stock Value Dropped 7.5% after Data Breaches
After analyzing the top three breaches from the past three years, Bitglass found that in the aftermath of a data […]
Unsecured server exposes data for 85% of all Panama citizens
An Elasticsearch server left connected to the internet without a password, or firewall protection, has leaked what appears to be […]
Administrative fine of 170.000 € imposed on Bergen Municipality
The Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of 1.6 million Norwegian kroner, or the equivalent of 170.000 […]
Turkish watchdog fines Facebook $271,000 for data breach
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) said on Friday it had fined Facebook a total of 1.65 million lira ($270,976.01) […]
Benchmarking Data on the First Anniversary of the GDPR
Organizations should already have most of the basic structures for compliance with GDPR in place – the ability to respond […]
61% of IT professionals have experienced a serious data breach
McAfee revealed in its Grand Theft Data II – The Drivers and Shifting State of Data Breaches, that IT security […]
Reported data breach numbers increase by 56% for early January
A recently-published study shows that the number of reported data breaches for the first three months of 2019 was up […]
Security Incident Mitigation Strategy: Effective Negotiation of Technology Contract Limitations of Liability
There is always significant negotiation around caps on liability when negotiating a contract with a technology vendor. If the vendor […]