Monday marks the two-year anniversary of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Strict regulations were introduced on May 25th 2008 on how organisations should handle customer data. Why then, even after two whole years of GDPR compliance, do organisations collect and store more customer data than they need? A recent Netwrix survey found that 61 […]
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Outsourcing firm Serco – who are training staff to trace cases of Covid-19 for the UK government – has apologised after accidentally sharing the email addresses of almost 300 contact tracers. The error was made when it emailed new trainees to tell them about training. The company has so far recruited 21,000 staff, some of
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Low-cost airline EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers. Email addresses and itineraries were stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”. It is thought the attackers had access to the data of customers who booked flights from 17 October to 4 March
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“Zoom bombing” is the catchphrase everyone is talking about. No, really! This is where uninvited guests crash your meetings or chat on the popular video conferencing app that are not password protected. There are large numbers of people who are still posting the Zoom meeting number online, and without any protection, bombers can simply enter
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The cruise liner Princess Cruises, which confirmed that two of its ships had on-board outbreaks of Coronavirus, has now confirmed a data breach. It was revealed that it had detected unauthorised access to several email accounts over a four-month period between April and July 2019, some of which contained personal information on its employees, crew
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Victims of a data breach that exposed the details of more than 900,000 people have been contacting their solicitors. Newcastle-based solicitors Ben Hoare Bell LLP are just one of the firms investigating the breach, which was allegedly down to “human error” rather than a cyber-attack. The database at the centre of the breach, contained phone
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Hackers are looking to dupe home workers to steal their personal information or freeze their screens and demand ransoms of thousands of pounds to unlock it. With more and more people working from home to try and contain COVID-19, now is the time to make sure your data is protected. This week, the UK’s cyber
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With an industry worth over £5 billion in the UK alone, the health and fitness sector has grown 20% in the last five years. Because of the sheer volume of data created and collected, data compliance means that every PT trainer and business owner needs to examine closely how they handle the information they receive.
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Accountancy firms must offer quality value-added services to stay competitive. Not only will this help develop existing client relationships but crucially it will help win new business. The nature and amount of work expected of accountants is ever-increasing. Gone are the days of only offering tax-compliancy and bookkeeping services. The sector is moving towards being
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 for poor security that exposed the personal data of 9.4 million passengers – 111,578 of whom were from the UK. They found that backup files not password-protected, unpatched web-facing servers and out-of-date OS. The breach occurred between October 2014 and May 2018 and exposed
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