Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
ICO calls for review into government use of private email and WhatsApp messages
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Information Commissioner’s Office reprimands Department of Health and Social Care after ministers and officials conducted government business on their own email accounts and messaging apps Read via Computer Weekly
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GDPR Fines Hit Nearly €100 Million in H1 2022
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fines continue to break records as more companies fall foul of laws designed to protect consumer interests and privacy. Read via Digit
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Facebook and Instagram face Europe ban over privacy dispute
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Facebook and Instagram could be forced offline in Europe after an Irish watchdog ruled that their parent company Meta could not share Europeans’ data with the US. Read via Yahoo
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Apple says Lockdown Mode in iOS 16 will help block government spyware attacks
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Apple said Wednesday it will bring a new “Lockdown Mode” to its upcoming iPhone and Mac software that will switch off certain features aimed at helping targeted individuals combat government-grade spyware. Read via Tech Crunch
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UK Councils and Hospitals Vulnerable to Cyber Hackers
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
An investigation into cybersecurity at UK public services revealed a large disparity in defense budgets, hundreds of website vulnerabilities and staff email addresses and passwords at one council posted in full online. Read via Information Security Magazine
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Hacker offers to sell Shanghai police database holding details on one billion Chinese residents
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A hacker is offering to sell a gigantic Shanghai police database that he says contains sensitive information on around one billion Chinese residents – including their names, addresses, birthdates, and crime and case reports. Read via Sky News
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NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A staff member at Customer.io, an email vendor contracted by OpenSea, misused their employee access to download and share email addresses of OpenSea’s users and newsletter subscribers with an unauthorized external party, the world’s largest NFT marketplace said Wednesday night. Reasd via Tech Crunch
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Google account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process that they say steers users into agreeing to extensive and invasive processing of their data. Read via Tech Crunch
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AMD investigating alleged theft of 450 GB of data
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is investigating a potential data breach after a hacking group claimed to have stolen 450 gigabytes of data from the chipmaker. Read via Silicon Angle
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Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Contractor said he lost the device – storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people – after an alcohol-fuelled night out Read via Guardian
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