Finally approved by parliament, data protection regulations will be enforced to protect data and privacy for all Egyptian citizens and European Union citizens in Egypt. The regulations have provisions and requirements related to the processing of personal data. Therefore companies dealing with personal data are now required to follow data protection regulations. The regulations consider […]
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Minnesota police officer has been awarded $585k after colleagues abused her data
Amy Krekelberg has won a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and two fellow police officers after discovering a database containing her data had been abused and looked up without permission. Krekelberg received a notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources whereby an employee had snooped on thousands of people in the state – to […]
Presidential warnings could be vulnerable to hackers
America’s presidential warnings about imminent threats has been identified as “easy” to spoof. Researchers at the University of Colorado have demonstrated how the messaging system can be exploited to send fake warnings. Set up in 2006, the US Wireless Emergency Alert is a mandated service to which “modern cell phones” are required to receive and […]
What to look for in a Qualified Security Assessor
With everyday awareness of security issues at an all-time high, businesses need to be doing all they can to ensure peace of mind when it comes to customers transactions using their credit or debit cards. To provide that peace of mind, a great Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) should be in place to provide feedback to […]
Hacker uses Raspberry Pi to steal data from NASA
In its report on cybersecurity at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA revealed that hackers had extracted data from a NASA network in April 2018. The report revealed that an unauthorised Raspberry Pi, a pocket-sized computer had been used to take approximately 500 megabytes of data from 23 files – “two of which contained International […]
A lost USB drive leads to the arrest of Anonymous hacker
An Anonymous Belgium hacker has been identified by the Belgium police after dropping a USB drive whilst throwing a Molotov cocktail. The hacker had been arrested by the police initially for throwing a cocktail at the Crelan Bank office located in the suburb of Roeselare, back in 2014. The police were able to track him […]
New US bill proposed for data sharing revenue
US senators have put forward a bill for new legislation that would require big tech firms to disclose to users how much revenue they earn by using and selling their data. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had been selling on users data to “friends” at other giants like Amazon; […]
Engage urges companies to review their processes
Following the reporting of 206,000 GDPR cases, Engage Technology Partners has urged employees to review their contractor, employee compliance, and management processes. Data provided by the European Data Protection Board reveals that out of the hundreds of thousands of cases reported, 95,000 were complaints and 65,000 were data security breach notifications. It was also discovered […]
ICO fines EE Limited £100,000
The telecoms company has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending direct marketing messagers to its customers, without consent. The company had sent over 2.5 million direct marketing messages in early 2018, encouraging customers to access and manage the “My EE” app and upgrade their phone. If customers had not engaged […]
BigID Webinar: PI Discovery and Privacy Automation for GDPR and CCPA
Register here today Next up in the Data Protection World Forum webinar series, BigID presents “PI Discovery and Privacy Automation for GDPR and CCPA. Going live on Thursday June 27th, this exclusive webinar brings Bank of England GDPR Advisor, Steve Wright together with BigID Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Nimrod Vax, to debate new data […]