Call to tighten UK law over data breaches
Consumer group Which? is unhappy with the U.K. data protection bill and has called on the government to amend the […]
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Two class-action lawsuits seeking financial damages from Equifax
Months after the financial details of 8,000 Canadians were compromised in the Equifax breach, two class-action lawsuits are duelling to […]
Data breach guidance to influence market practice around the terms of data processing contracts
Technology suppliers could be forced to contractually commit themselves to much shorter deadlines for reporting data breaches to their clients […]
WP29 releases draft breach notification guidelines
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation imposes stricter obligations on data controllers and processors to ensure the security of personal […]
Australian DPA seeks comments on data breach notification guidelines
The Office of the Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner has published draft resources for the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, asking […]
Possible security risk affects 750,000 Estonian ID-cards
An international team of researchers detected a vulnerability potentially affecting digital use of Estonian ID cards issued since October 2014. […]
Accenture Data Leak Exposed 137 GB’s of Highly Sensitive Data online
One of the worlds largest consulting firm “Accenture” owned four biggest cloud-based storage servers left openly in public without securing […]
Understand the dangers of OSS? Equifax means you have to.
The Equifax breach has dominated headlines since it was announced earlier this month — and for good reason. The personal data […]
Ottawa plans to fine companies that fail to report data breaches
Canadian companies that try to hide data breaches could soon face fines under new regulations being proposed by the federal […]
GDPR: setting the record straight on data breach reporting
Misleading press stories have claimed that all breaches will need to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office and customers […]
Is your customers’ data protected from your employees?
Access by employees to customers’ data has to be subject to stringent privacy restrictions and limitations according to a decision […]
Why do big hacks happen? Blame Big Data!
Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies, revealed on Thursday that it was hacked back in May, exposing the […]