Delegates are taking to Twitter to engage with some of the insightful presentations taking place at European Data Protection Summit in the heart of London. Attendees in the Synergy Theatre heard iSTORM Solutions DPO, Richard Merrygold discussed the challenges and solutions of Subject Access Requests. Head of Privacy and Protection at Gemserv, Ivana Bartoletti, presented […]
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Man arrested in connection with University of South Wales data breach
A 26-year-old man has been arrested following a data breach that took place at the University of South Wales. Last week, news broke about a data breach at the UK institution, details of which were passed on to police authorities. Adding to the disruption, the incident took place as USW students were sitting down to […]
People Inc. announces data breach exposing nearly 1,000 clients
In a statement, People Inc. announced that personal information had been exposed after two employee email accounts had been breached. The non-profit organisation discovered the breach on February 19, 2019 whereby an unknown individual had gained access to an email account belonging to an employee at People Inc. Once identified, People Inc. immediately reset the […]
Maine rules that ISPs must now ask permission before selling data
On Thursday, the Maine Senate passed a bill requiring ISPs to gain consent before data harvesting. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are able to collect a vast amount of data on their users, which can then be exploited by selling to advertisers and data brokers. The bill, LD 946, requires that ISPs must obtain the “express […]
Lack of skills considered to be one of the biggest challenges to OT security
An online survey conducted by security firm NTT Security has looked into the challenges facing organisations managing Operational Technology (OT). The report revealed that just under half of the respondents (46%) said a lack of skills was the biggest challenge companies face when managing OT, whilst 29% believed that the lack of visibility into OT […]
European Data Protection Summit opens in London next week
Coming to central London this Monday June 3rd, European Data Protection Summit brings global experts together to discuss emerging trends and technologies in data handling that uphold the GDPR. Delegates can look forward to hearing experts from the worlds of data protection, privacy and IT security in three theatres, including Enterprise, Synergy and Interact. A […]
UK universities targeted by hackers
A report sponsored by VMware and Dell EMC has investigated how UK universities that conduct research programmes combat cyber threats. It was found that UK universities are finding it difficult to keep their research data safe, with hackers targeting research concerning science (54%), medicine (50%), economics (37%) and defence (33%). A quarter of the universities’ […]
Research reveals organisations are overconfident in their ability to combat cyberthreats
A report by Centrify and Techvangelism surveyed 1,300 organisations across 11 industries in the US and Canada. The report identified that 79% of organisations do not have a mature approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM). It was revealed that 93% of organisations believe that they are somewhat prepared against threats that involved privileged credentials, however […]
Apple and WhatsApp sign an open letter opposing GCHQ’s surveillance proposal
More than 50 companies, civil society organisations and security experts have raised concerns about GCHQ’s surveillance proposal. Published last November, the proposal argued that law enforcement should be added as a “ghost” participant and thus have access to end-to-end encrypted communications. Essentially this would mean that intelligence agencies would be ‘CC’d’ on encrypted messages without […]
Snaptrip accidentally exposes the personal details of its customers
The London-based last minute cottage renting company has leaked both the personal and payment data of its customers. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the open and unprotected MongoDB database on May 21st, with no login credentials needed to view the data. Aside from admin credentials and hashed account passwords, the database named ‘Snap-Trip-Api’ contained 1,006 […]