Companies ignorant about data protection in the cloud
The level of ignorance within industry about data protection laws has been underlined by a survey that found nearly three-fourths […]
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Four Steps for Privacy Professionals to Get Security Savvy
As more CPOs need to interact with security, they need the right skills to integrate security into the privacy strategy […]
Woman Says Her Identity Has Been Stolen 15 Times Since Equifax Data Breach
“I want to share my story and make people aware that this can happen to anybody.” Source: Seattle Woman Says […]
Discovery of New Internet of Things (IoT) Based Malware Could Put a New Spin on DDoS Attacks
Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain […]
Denmark wants to check students search history
Denmark’s Education Minister Merete Riisager has proposed a new law that encourages students to grant schools access to their personal […]
Data Breaches Rose By 164% in First Half Of 2017
Companies have seen a “staggering” increase in data breaches, according to a study by Gemalto. Source: Data Breaches Rose By […]
Should companies be able to ‘hack back’?
Hacking is pervasive and a source of anxiety for nearly every company. Hacked companies facing financial and reputational harm, and […]
Assessing the threat the IoT botnet poses to the Internet
Whatever the threat posed by the new IoT botnet, a worse one has lurked for months. Source: Assessing the threat […]
New Ransomware ‘Bad Rabbit’ Spreading Quickly Through Russia and Ukraine
There’s a potentially massive new ransomware spreading in Eastern Europe. The malware, dubbed Bad Rabbit, has hit three Russian media outlets, […]
Equifax hack being probed by UK’s financial watchdog
The fallout from the massive Equifax hack, publicly disclosed last month, continues: Today the UK’s financial watchdog said it also […]
Artificial intelligence smart enough to fool Captcha security check
Researchers developed an algorithm that imitates how the human brain responds to these visual clues. Source: Artificial intelligence smart enough […]
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 […]