Vulnerability versus incident
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 […]
NCSC publishes new guidance and security paper now available
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published two new items of security architecture guidance, to help designers of computer […]
Big Tech condemn GCHQ proposal to listen in on encrypted chats
An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and […]
ENISA publishes report on Industry 4.0 Cybersecurity
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA is stepping up its efforts to foster cybersecurity for Industry 4.0 by publishing a […]
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 […]
Irish data watchdog examining WhatsApp security flaw
Ireland’s data protection watchdog – the Irish Data Protection Commission- said it was “actively engaging” with WhatsApp’s Irish division to […]
Trump declares national emergency over IT threats
President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to protect US computer networks from “foreign adversaries”. He signed an executive […]
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 […]