New EU fines will apply to ‘old’ data breaches
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will require that companies that process personal data inform the relevant data […]
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password […]
NIST releases latest version of its Cybersecurity Framework
On April 16, 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled Version 1.1 of its widely known Cybersecurity […]
A Short History of Mark Zuckerberg’s Privacy Gaffes at Facebook
Facebook has been updating its privacy settings for more than a decade. Will this time be different? Maybe these tools […]
Privacy as an Afterthought: ICANN’s Response to the GDPR
Almost three years ago, the global domain name authority ICANN chartered a working group to consider how to build a […]
Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show
A Motherboard investigation has found that law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey, a relatively cheap tool for […]
Russian cyber threat pushes UK to sign world’s largest digital security pact
Theresa May will strengthen the UK’s digital defences through a £15m online security pact with Commonwealth allies amid warnings over the growing threat […]
75% of consumers won’t buy your product if they don’t trust you to protect their data
More than three quarters of US consumers now say that a company’s ability to keep their data private is ‘extremely […]
Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised
Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from […]
EU to force tech firms to hand over terror suspects’ messages
The European commission is seeking to force technology companies wherever they are based in the EU to hand over emails, […]
Advisory group releases IoT safety and design risk toolkit
Hundreds of initiatives have been launched over the past several years to tackle the issue of internet-of-things security in the […]
Take Action to Close the Largest Cause of Data Security Incidents – Your Employees
If you work at a typical company, employee actions and inadvertent present the greatest threat to the security of your […]