Irish DPA receives over 1,100 reports of data breaches under GDPR
More than 1,100 reports of data breaches involving people’s personal information have been received by the Data Protection Commission in […]
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Breach reporting: lessons learned
Amongst the most immediate and visible impacts of the GDPR is the requirement to report data breaches to the Information […]
Reddit hack: data held in 2007 exposed
Reddit, the website supporting discussion and content ratings, has confirmed it was subject to a data breach, affecting all data […]
Majority of companies fear 3rd-party vendors make them vulnerable to GDPR legal risks
Only 32 percent of companies say they are fully GDPR-compliant, according to the Demandbase/Demand Metric report. The report does show that […]
Police can now access your iPhone without your help
A newly developed tool aimed at cracking the code of Apple iPhones is being pursued or already in the hands […]
Consumers are not acting on privacy concerns when using mobile applications
Consumers are becoming concerned about their privacy when using mobile applications, finds a survey carried out in the US, but […]
Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices
Serious error in the in the Bluetooth specification lets hackers to intercept and tamper with data exchanged between vulnerable devices. Attackers […]
How privacy is moving data security to the top of corporate agendas
It’s no longer privacy vs security. Regulations like GDPR and customer data breaches have joined privacy and security efforts at […]
3D Printing, Cybersecurity, and Audio Fingerprinting
Some researchers have lately been pondering what might happen ifsomeone break into your 3D printer. Of course, you could bring […]
73% of CISOs companies resigned to data breaches are stockpiling cryptocurrency to pay off ransoms, survey reveals
In an evolving threat landscape, the report revealed that 73% of CISOs companies resigned to data breaches are stockpiling cryptocurrency […]
More than 40% of reported security breaches are caused by employee negligence
Research shows that employees are often the root cause of business security breaches. More training will help, but better security […]
Privacy violations by free VPN service providers
VPNs are generally regarded as a way to bypass censorship, both in developed and developing nations, and the concept of […]