Failing to patch vulnerabilities now will lead to punishment under the GDPR. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that organisations could be punished for existing vulnerabilities when the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is enforced....
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GDPR Good News
An EfficientIP X-Day study says average global spend on GDPR compliance tops £1 million, with less than 100 days to go before the deadline for EU GDPR compliance on 25th May this year. EfficientIP, through independent market research firm Coleman Parkes, asked over...
GDPR- 62% of organisations unaware
62% of organisations unaware of the GDPR There is an alarming lack of awareness across all industries about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Almost two thirds (62%) of respondents hadn’t heard of the Regulation, and only about 10% had taken steps to...
Data Breach – Age UK
Age UK has confirmed that it experienced a Data Breach on two occasions at the end of 2017 that compromised the personal information of up to 5,000 past and present employees. How it happened The charity discovered the incident after it was informed by email...
Ransomware- Unusual Strain Encrypts Cloud Email
Ransomware is a type of malware from crypto virology that threatens to publish the victim's personal data or permanently block access to it unless a ransom is paid. A white hat hacker recently developed a working “Ransomware” strain that encrypts cloud email...
Cyber security- what is Meltdown and Spectre ?
"Computer researchers have recently found a dangerous Cyber Security threat: the main chip in most modern computers—the CPU—has a hardware bug. It's really a design flaw in the hardware that has been there for years. This is a big deal because it affects almost every...