#RISK Intelligence Archive – Page 185
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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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NewsUK releases details of Russian cyber attacks against Olympics and Paralympics
GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, hacked officials and organisations involved in the planned 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, the UK government has announced.
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NewsFinCEN fines early Bitcoin mixer operator $60m
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has fined the founder and operator of Helix and Coin Ninja $60m.
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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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NewsFacebook’s lead European regulator investigates Instagram’s processing of children’s data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched two statutory inquiries into the processing of children’s data on Facebook-owned social media platform, Instagram.
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Article20 arrested across Europe in ‘unprecedented’ international operation against laundering network
Law enforcement authorities from 16 different countries have disrupted the QQAAZZ money laundering network, carrying out 40 house searches and arresting 20 suspected members of the group.
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NewsFinCEN publishes new typologies to help firms detect money laundering linked to human trafficking
The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has published new information on typologies and indicators to help compliance teams combat the “horrific toll” of human trafficking.
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FeaturePrivate and confidential? Healthtech and the pandemic
PrivSec Report takes a look at the growth of digital healthcare – and the impact on patient privacy and data security.
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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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WebinarDefining Privacy Success and the struggle to measure it
Most companies are years into their privacy programs, but still haven’t figured out part of the essentials: how to accurately measure the success and impact of the privacy team’s work.
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FeatureCOVID-19 FOCUS: Contact tracing in Ireland
As countries across the world grapple with tracking the virus while protecting data and privacy, Ireland’s contact tracing app has had a better reception than most. PrivSec Report looks at the Irish app’s development and privacy journey.
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Q&AFinCrime Job Focus: Matthew Redhead, researcher and writer
In our latest reader-submitted Q&A Matthew Redhead explains how financial crime can get the emotional juices flowing
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FeatureThe skills needed in the FinCrime team of the future
Becky Marriott’s financial crime fighting journey to date includes working on security in warzones, threat intelligence at the 2012 Olympics, tracing global sanction evasion networks and investigating ISIS. Now at digital banking services provider Tide, Marriott discusses the skills needed to equip the financial crime teams of the future.
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NewsAUSTRAC plans A$100m regulatory system overhaul and more enforcement action
AUSTRAC will overhaul its regulatory system using A$100m of new funding and step up enforcement action, a senior figure at the Australian financial crime regulator has said.
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FeaturePlease mind the (cyber skills) gap
Amid the furore around a withdrawn UK government-backed cyber skills advertisement this week, Privsec Report takes a look at the messaging and what it says about cyber security recruitment.
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NewsFATF flags Chinese FIU’s lack of powers to tackle AML
China’s decentralised Financial Intelligence Unit system lacks the power to analyse suspicious activity adequately, a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report has said.
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FeatureWhy building privacy trust into the NHS app is key to protecting lives and businesses
Showing that the collection of data through the NHS app is ethical and transparent is crucial to its success this winter, writes Evelina Georgieva
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WebinarDefensible Data Retention: The Holy Grail of Mitigating Data Privacy Risks
Over-retention of data is a major data privacy risk. US and international regulations specifically require that companies ensure their retention standards are up-to-date and enforced, and that all obsolete records containing regulated sensitive data are disposed of promptly.
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NewsUK National Cyber Security Centre investigating ‘serious’ cyber attack on Hackney Council
Council officers have been working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre to investigate an attack affecting Hackney Council’s IT systems.
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NewsReport finds privacy and data protection shortcomings in some government measures to address Covid-19 pandemic
Shortcomings in the protection of privacy and data protection in some legislative and technical measures taken by governments to combat Covid-19 have been identified in a report published this week by human rights organisation the Council of Europe.
