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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Online impersonation of CEOs on the rise during COVID crisis
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Critical Bluetooth vulnerability gives hackers full access
A new vulnerability has been found in the Bluetooth wireless standard. Hackers can exploit it to connect to d...
Ireland orders Facebook to stop transfering European data to the U.S
On Wednesday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced that Facebook should not be sending European d...
China launches plan for international data standard for countries
China announced a global data security plan which they would like to make the new international standard. ...
Emotet attacks spike in France, Japan, and New Zealand
Cybersecurity agencies from Japan, France, and New Zealand have issued security alerts in recent publications...
Millions of websites vulnerable due to zero-day in WordPress plugin
WordPress is under fire after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the popular plugin 'File Manager.' Millio...
Apple delays privacy policy that threatens advertisers to early 2021
Last Thursday, Apple announced that they would delay a privacy policy change until early 2021. The impact of ...
Amazon, Apple and Google raise fees in response to new digital taxes
Three of the biggest tech companies are raising some of their service fees after digital taxes were implement...
By 2024, CEOs will be held responsible for cybersecurity failures
Gartner expects CEOs to be directly held responsible for lapses in cybersecurity in the next four years. The ...
Browser histories are accurate enough to identify users
Userprofiles are used in identifying and re-identifying users as they browse the internet. A study presented ...