After a year of apparent inaction, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has struck twice in two days with the two largest privacy-related fines in the EU. I think organisations can draw two key lessons from these actions: 1. You can’t …
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) announced today that it will be fining British Airways £183m for the website date breach it suffered last year. I said at the time that a data breach on this scale and which lasted as …
The City of Florida, after agreeing to spend $1 million (about £790,000) on new IT infrastructure after hackers captured their systems three weeks ago, has now agreed to pay $600k to get access to their systems. The ransomware was apparently …
For 7 months, cyber criminals had access to – and successfully exfiltrated – the extensive personal records of some 20 million US citizens. The American Medical Collections Agency had spent $1 million, as recently as 2015, upgrading and modernising its …
Well, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is markedly faster out of the blocks in terms of dealing with PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) breaches than in dealing with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) ones. Some 16 company directors have …
For those of you wonder what on earth the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is doing in terms of regulatory action in relation to privacy, their latest update identifies some recent financial penalties: A television production company was fined £20,000 for …
Last week in the US, a Georgia county paid a ransomware criminal $400,000 (about £302,000) to release its IT systems. The malware resulted in almost the entire local government system taken offline and processes revert to paper; officials decided that …
Can you imagine an ostrich, with its head in the ground, backing toward a precipitous cliff-edge? Highly unlikely, I know, but then there’s the UK Parliament… In the great Brexit debate, the leaders of both the UK’s main political parties …
CyRiM’s (Cyber Risk Management Project) chilling report, Global infection by contagious malware , describes a scenario in which a well-resourced, motivated and malicious cyber team creates a self-replicating worm that encrypts all devices and wipes backups. I recently commented on what …
According to research carried out for Carbon Black, an endpoint security company, 88% of UK organisations reported they suffered a cyber breach in the past 12 months, with the average breaches per organisation running at 3.67! Attacks have become more …
