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) […]
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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 […]
New laws should strengthen security across Internet of Things
New laws may soon be passed to improve the security of IoT gadgets, in the wake of an increasing number […]
Irish data regulator looking into Facebook password gaffe
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) has confirmed it’s looking into the hundreds of millions of passwords that Facebook stored without […]
Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps
A hacker broke into thousands of accounts belonging to users of two GPS tracker apps, giving him the ability to […]
Italy’s DPA Fines Data Processor for Information Security Failures
Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante, has issued a 50,000 EUR fine against a data processor platform for its failures to […]
EU pushes to link tracking databases
Lawmakers are set to approve plans for an enormous new database that will collect biometric data on almost all non-EU […]
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing […]
EU Commission Issues Recommendation on Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector
The European Commission has published a Recommendation on cybersecurity in the energy sector. The Recommendation builds on recent EU legislation […]