More From Breaches & Vulnerabilities – Page 12
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VideoData Discovery as a Platform
Learn how AI boosts data discovery to manage data governance, data privacy and data protection with simplicity in one platform
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VideoData Discovery: What Skeletons are Hiding in Your Unstructured Data?
With the ever-increasing use of data and number of digital threats to organisations, data breaches are unfortunately commonplace.
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NewsFrench food retail giant Carrefour fined €3m for GDPR breaches
The French multinational retailer Carrefour has been fined €3m for multiple data protection failings.
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AnalysisProtecting data security during digital transformation
As organisations embrace the distributed workforce and become “Everywhere Enterprises”, digital transformation needs to go hand in hand with data security, says Brian Foster.
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VideoProtect sensitive data in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft DLP
Join this session with Microsoft where they will discuss protecting sensitive data in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft DLP.
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NewsThe FTC settles with Zoom after the company ‘misled’ users over encryption and surveillance
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a settlement with Zoom, after the company “misled users by touting that it offered ‘end-to-end, 256-bit encryption’ and remote video surveillance.”
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NewsTwitter inches closer to first cross-border GDPR penalty
Twitter is inching closer to becoming the subject of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s first major cross-border GDPR decision.
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NewsLegal action brought against ICO over alleged Adtech GDPR breaches
UK privacy campaigners The Open Rights Group (ORG) yesterday announced their intention to bring legal action against the UK data protection regulator.
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ArticleBharti Airtel blames controversial privacy policy wording on a ‘clerical error’
Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel says a clerical error led to a discrepancy in its privacy policy, which stated the company shared personal information including genetic data with third parties.
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FeatureIdentifying, verifying and authenticating customers in banking
PrivSec Report looks at some of the identification and verification technologies currently being used to ensure privacy and security in an increasingly complex banking landscape while ensuring user experience remains positive.
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NewsHalf of large companies to adopt privacy-enhancing computation by 2025
Half of large organisations will implement privacy-enhancing computation for processing data in untrusted environments within five years, Gartner has predicted.
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NewsIAB Europe warns of ‘chilling effect’ on open-source compliance solutions if GDPR breach interpretation upheld
Digital advertising association IAB Europe has hit out at a preliminary report by the Belgian Data Protection Authority finding that its ad tracking consent framework does not comply with GDPR.
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NewsBritish Airways fined £20m over data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 of its customers.
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NewsICO probes Klarna after newsletter emailed to customers in error
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is probing an incident in which payment service provider Klarna sent an email to customers who had not opted in to receive it.
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ArticleHuman error reveals personal data of 18,000 Welsh Covid-19 sufferers
Public Health Wales yesterday announced a data breach involving the personally identifiable data of 18,105 people resident in Wales who had received a positive test for Covid-19.
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NewsUK government department seeks digital suppliers to roll out £2.25m data protection programme following New Year’s honours breach
The UK Cabinet Office is seeking digital service providers to deliver a £2.25m data protection programme, following a high-profile breach last year.
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ArticleDanish hotel group fined for failing to delete customers’ details
The Arp-Hansen Hotel Group in Denmark has been fined 1.1m Danish crowns (US$170,000, €148,000) and referred to the police by the country’s data protection authority (Datatilsynet) for storing information on clients longer than necessary.
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NewsNew report reveals cyber security flaws in UK universities
More than half of UK universities have reported at least one data breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the last year, according to a report from managed security services provider Redscan.
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NewsPwC develops facial recognition tools to monitor employees
Global accounting firm PwC has developed a facial recognition tool specifically for financial institutions to monitor employees working from home.
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FeatureSecurity Concerns over Contact Tracing Apps
When an individual is found to be infected with the coronavirus, the race is on to find those who they have come into contact with, as these people could be carriers or even be infected. This has led to hundreds of coronavirus contact-tracing mobile applications being developed worldwide and backed by various governments and national health authorities, as well as guidelines by the EU and special protocols developed by the two major smartphone OS vendors Apple & Google. In some places, the usage of such applications has been made mandatory for people who want to gain access into public spaces.
