A new Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Redscan for data from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals that UK businesses were seriously falling short in terms of data breach …
Experian: More Than a Third of Companies are Unprepared to Respond to a Data Breach
New research by Experian shows that companies are still falling short when it comes to cyber security disaster preparedness. The study found that just over one-third of business executives (36%) …
92% of organizations rank users as their primary security concern
KnowBe4 has released a new report detailing how organizations are dealing with the rising threat of cybercrime. The research shows that 95% of organizations are worried about the consequences of a …
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2.7 Million Health-Related Calls, Sensitive Info Exposed for Six Years
In a very ugly data leak, an unsecured server has exposed 170,000 hours of recordings from 2.7 million calls made to the 1177 Swedish Healthcare Guide service since 2013. Many callers shared sensitive …
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Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, a holiday introduced by the Council of Europe in 2007 that seems to be more relevant than ever, since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into force …
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Flood of Complaints to EU Countries Since Data Law Adopted
Since the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on May 25 of last year, EU citizens have filed over 95,000 complaints under the legislation. In response, …
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GDPR Compliance Brings Other Benefits: Cisco Study
The findings of Cisco’s 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study(PDF) imply that GDPR compliance has major security and other benefits for companies. Only a small majority (59%) of organizations in the study …
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Industry reactions to Google’s €50 million GDPR violation fine
The French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has fined Google €50 million (over $56 million) on Monday for not sufficiently informing users how the company collects data in order to serve …
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European readers still blocked from some US news sites
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a law changing the requirements for data collection disclosure, went into effect on the 25th of May. To date, the Tronc and Lee Enterprises …
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