36% of Dutch companies fail compliance audit
As a result, such companies are ten times more likely to become a data breach victim.
That's according to figures from Thales. Based on research among 3,000 IT professionals worldwide, including 105 from the Netherlands, Thales shares the alarming figures. Of all the companies that failed a comp... Read more
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Microsoft has made Cloud for Sovereignty generally available. The new service is promising to allow governments to securely place their data in the cloud. Yet Microsoft personnel can access the data in specific scenarios. It's part of the reason that the authenticity of this "sovereign cloud" seems... Read more
NexGen Cloud invests $1 billion in first European AI Supercloud
NexGen Cloud is developing the first European AI Supercloud environment. With this, the company aims to significantly advance the development of AI applications by European companies.
NextGen Cloud, an IaaS provider and partner of Nvidia, is investing $1 billion in developing the first European ... Read more
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise doubles speed and removes privacy concerns
OpenAI is releasing ChatGPT Enterprise. The enterprise version is said to generate a response twice as fast and it accepts longer prompts.
ChatGPT Enterprise has been officially released. OpenAI aims to appeal to the enterprise audience with this chatbot and tries to lure them with additional f... Read more
AI training over data privacy: Microsoft and Zoom get caught
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is calling to abandon the video platform Zoom. The reason for this is the sneaky tweaks in user agreements surrounding the use of data to train AI. It seems to be the beginning of a slight trend since Microsoft is also guilty of the same facts.
SFC is aski... Read more
Here’s how to protect your privacy in Microsoft Edge
There seems to be a bug in version 112 of the Microsoft Edge browser. A feature intended to track content creators everywhere sends entire URLs to a Bing domain. Fortunately, you can fix this privacy issue as a user.
The feature is on for users by default. To prevent this behaviour from Edge, yo... Read more
OpenAI to launch ChatGPT Business ‘within months’
New paid tier (in addition to ChatGPT Plus) of ChatGPT should offer more control for use in business environments.
Many organizations today no doubt already use ChatGPT for a variety of purposes. Yet in terms of data privacy, that may not be the best idea. That is, there is quite a bit of ambigu... Read more
Western Digital reports a cybersecurity incident
In a recent announcement, Western Digital revealed that it has fallen victim to a cyber-attack that has caused the company to shut down some of its systems.
The data storage firm reported that it detected a network security incident on March 26th involving an unauthorized third party gaining acc... Read more
Meta Platforms to pay $725 mln to settle Cambridge Analytica class action lawsuit
Meta Platforms, Facebook's parent company, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the social media giant enabled third parties, notably Cambridge Analytica, to obtain users' data.
The settlement agreement, revealed in a court filing late Thursday, would end a lo... Read more
Interserve fined £4.4 million for lack of data protection
Interserve was fined £4.4 million by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a breach of personal employee data.
In 2019, UK-based outsourcing firm Interverse was faced with several cyberattacks that compromised the personal information of 113,000 employees. From March 18th to D... Read more