The FTC-Venmo Privacy Settlement is All About Design
Paypal has settled charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that stated its popular money transferring app, Venmo, misled customers […]
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Additional 2.4 million Equifax consumers were affected by the cyber attack
Equifax disclosed earlier on Thursday that it had discovered an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers were affected by the cyber […]
What changes GDPR will bring?
While some tend to portray new European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (?GDPR?) as menacing Apocalypse coming from nowhere, […]
Luxembourg DPA Publishes Data Breach Reporting Form
On February 12, 2018, the Luxembourg data protection authority ( Commission nationale pour la protection des donées , “CNPD”) published […]
Lack of funding exposes US federal agencies to high data breach risks
US federal agencies suffer the highest volume of data breaches out of government agencies worldwide and budgets are part of […]
Catastrophic Data Breach Is Inevitable by 2021
The growing internet of things and increasingly sophisticated malware are putting global organizations at a greater risk for cyberattacks, but […]
When Obscurity Is Not a Defense
Many organizations facing a data-security incident struggle to understand how or why their organization was targeted in an attack. Most […]
UK’s councils unprepared for cyber-attacks, report says
More than 25% of UK councils have had their computer systems breached in the past five years, campaigners say. A […]
Australia’s DPA releases data breach response
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has prepared this guide to assist Australian Government agencies and private sector […]
Recent OCR Newsletter Highlights Growing Cyber Extortion Threat for Healthcare Organizations
The OCR’s January 2018 newsletter details specific types of cyber extortion that healthcare organizations are currently encountering, including ransomware, denial […]
Lax cloud compliance raises concerns about data breach legislation readiness
Digital security firm Gemalto last month released its “2018 Global Cloud Data Security Study” report, commissioning the Ponemon Institute to […]
A phishing attack scored credentials for more than 50,000 Snapchat users
In late July, Snap’s director of engineering emailed the company’s team in response to an unfolding privacy threat. A government […]