Privacy Archive
An organisation’s ability to respond promptly to security incidents has a huge impact on the costs it incurs. According to Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, organisations that are able to detect and respond to an incident …
Public Health Wales has confirmed that it accidentally published the personal data of 18,105 people who tested positive for coronavirus. The information was accessible on a publicly accessible server for 20 hours on 30 August. In most cases, patients’ initials, …
Newcastle University is being held to ransom after its systems were infected with malware earlier this month. The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang breached the university’s systems on 4 September, and later that day stole backup files. The university has apologised for …
In our latest round-up of phishing scams, we look at a novel Instagram scam that targets victims through their direct messages, review the latest campaign that imitates Microsoft Office’s log-in page and discuss how even a cyber security training provider …
Organisations spend $3.86 million (about £2.9 million) recovering from security incidents, according to Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020. That represents a slight decrease on 2019, which Ponemon’s researchers credit to organisations doing a better job strengthening …
There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is …
If you’re transferring data outside of the EEA, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) imposes some restrictions. These apply to all data transfers, no matter the size of the transfer or how often you carry them out. So how do you …
Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessibly database that contains sensitive information from 235 million users of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The Comparitech report claims that the database – which contains a wealth of information, including users’ names and contact …
Carnival has suffered a ransomware attack, putting the personal data of both customers and staff at risk. The Florida-based cruise operator says that the incident, which was discovered on 15 August, affected the IT systems of one of its brands …
ISO/IEC 27701:2019 is a privacy extension to the internationally recognised management system standard for information security, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, providing a set of privacy-specific requirements, controls and control objectives. It specifies the requirements for, and provides guidance on, establishing, implementing, maintaining …
