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.
Timeline
Investigation into SolarWinds hack in full swing
Thousands of companies and various government organisations are looking for clues that they have been affecte...
MountLocker ransomware is now spreading via criminal affiliates
Security researchers at Blackberry say that a new strain of ransomware has popped up that uses affiliates to ...
Criminals more successfully spoof banks and financial services
Bitdefender published a new report that says the stay-at-home model of working, online shopping, and online b...
Massive hack hits US government and many other organizations
SolarWinds software, which is used by various American organizations, has been hit by an extensive hack. Russ...
Platinum Equity To Acquire Ingram Micro
The deal to buy the world's largest technology distributor is worth $7.2 Billion. Platinum Equity announce...
Security company FireEye hit by cyber attack
FireEye, a company that provides digital security for other companies, has itself fallen victim to a hack. Th...
Cloudflare working on anonymizing DNS lookups
Together with companies such as Apple and Fastly, Cloudflare is developing a technique that makes it impossib...
Facebook might have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
Several bodies of the US administration have started a lawsuit against Facebook. They feel that the company i...
Apple to remove apps that do not comply with new privacy feature
Apple threatens to remove apps from its App Store if developers do not ensure that they comply with an upcomi...
Cybercrime now costs the global economy a trillion dollars
Cybercrime now costs the global economy about a trillion dollars, according to a new McAfee report. The repor...