IT Security Archive
Friday 29 January Many organisations are slightly confused about the immediate GDPR requirements in the UK and the EU following the UK’s exit from the EU. This is the situation: the so-called Free Trade Agreement makes provision for the EU …
According to the World Health Organization, the total number of coronavirus deaths, worldwide, as at 0100 on 28 April 2020, is 202,733. At this point, Covid-19 is the 23rd highest cause of death worldwide.
In troubled times – when faced with socio-economic uncertainty or political instability – organisations tend to pull in their horns, cut expenditure and save for the whatever the future holds. Cyber criminals love troubled times, because they know that organisations …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Anyone who does even a limited amount of analysis of the ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) website can see that, on average in the UK, the time elapsed between the committing of an offence under data protection legislation and the consequent …
Historically, data protection fines tended to be triggered by either cyber breaches or some process or system failure that led to personal data being exposed. Two of the first fines imposed under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) point to …
