Privacy & Compliance
There is a lot going on around privacy and compliance, especially in Europe. This in itself is a good thing, because data should be adequately protected, especially if it concerns personal data. In practice, however, it turns out to be quite disappointing how well organizations do this. We read and write a lot about data breaches. Over the years there seem to be more rather than fewer of them. Is that because organizations don’t want to do better or can’t do better? Whatever the reason, a good policy on privacy and compliance is indispensable in the current era. Especially with all kinds of new legislation that has been introduced and is coming, the need to put this high on the agenda is only increasing.
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Passwordstate hacked, 29,000 companies at risk
Hackers have managed to add malware to an update package of the password manager Passwordstate. The malware i...
UiPath shares jump 23%, after raising $1.4 billion during IPO
UiPath, the automation technology startup, jumped 23% in trading on Wednesday, after its initial public offer...
Facebook wants to normalise news about leaks, new data leak surfaces
Facebook wants to deflect attention from its recent data breach by creating an image that scraping incidents ...
‘British authorities could clean Exchange servers like the FBI did’
British authorities have the legal means to break into vulnerable Exchange servers to remove possible malware...
Codecov hacked, attacker had access to software source code
Codecov, a company offering software auditing services, has fallen victim to a hack. The attacker appears to ...
Project Zero gives users 30 days to install patches
Google Project Zero has added a 30-day period to the 90-day period in which it releases details of zero-days....
Human rights organisations want stricter EU rules for WhatsApp and Skype
A coalition of human rights organisations is asking European lawmakers to set strict rules for WhatsApp and S...
Irish privacy watchdog starts investigation into Facebook incident
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland will investigate the Facebook incident from earlier this mont...
FBI hacks into Exchange servers to protect them
The FBI has shared information about an operation in which it hacks into leaky Exchange servers. The intellig...
Microsoft closes multiple zero-days in Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released its monthly series of security updates for its software. During this round of patches,...