Privacy pros gaining control of technology decision-making over IT
TrustArc and IAPP announced the results of new research that examined how privacy technology is bought and deployed to address privacy and data protection challenges. …
World powers equip, train other countries for surveillance
Privacy International has released a report that looks at how powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries with surveillance capabilities. Countries …
Zero login: Fixing the flaws in authentication
Passwords, birth certificates, national insurance numbers and passports – as well as the various other means of authentication, that we have relied upon for the past century …
Only 20% of companies have fully completed their GDPR implementations
Key findings from a survey conducted by Dimensional Research highlight that only 20% of companies surveyed believe they are GDPR compliant, while 53% are in the implementation …
Want to avoid GDPR fines? Adjust your IT procurement methods
Gartner said many organizations are still not compliant with GDPR legislation even though it has been in force since May 2018. This is because they have not properly audited …
Ticketmaster breach part of massive credit card skimming campaign
RiskIQ researchers have discovered that the recent breach of Ticketmaster was not a one-off event as initially reported, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming …
Apple releases security updates, adds new privacy protection for iOS users
Apple has released new versions of its many operating systems and software products, with fixes for a wide variety of vulnerabilities. The iOS update also comes with USB …
Sumo Logic: What can you learn from our approach to GDPR?
Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by experts in log management, scalable systems, big data, and security. Today, their purpose-built, cloud-native service analyzes more than 100 …
Fitness app Polar Flow reveals home addresses of soldiers, spies
Polar Flow can reveal sensitive information about the lives of users, including intelligence agents, embassy workers, military men and women, workers at nuclear weapons …
German web hosting firm DomainFactory suffers data breach
DomainFactory, one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, has suffered a data breach. The breach dates back to January 29, 2018, and the attacker had access to the …
New insider attack steals passwords by reading thermal energy from keyboards
After entering a password, your regular computer keyboard might appear to look the same as always, but a new approach harvesting thermal energy can illuminate the recently …
Check your printers for leftover GDPR-regulated PII
Many companies are embracing the GDPR as an opportunity to improve privacy, security, and data management, by cutting down on the amount of personal data they keep, ditching …
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