Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Hackers selling personal data of 384k BMW owners in the UK
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Personal details of hundreds of thousands of car owners in the UK, including owners of BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai, and SEAT cars, have been accessed by a hacker group and put up for sale on a Dark Web forum. Read story by Jay Jay at TEISS.
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Security Think Tank: Get your house in order before deploying AI
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News Industry News
AI and machine learning techniques are said to hold great promise in security, enabling organisations to operate a IT predictive security stance and automate reactive measures when needed. Is this perception accurate, or is the importance of automation being gravely overestimated? Read Mike Gillespie in Computer Weekly.
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Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
A top-secret communications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns has been “successfully penetrated”, says the National Crime Agency. Read story by Danny Shaw for the BBC
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Coronavirus recovery – six data protection steps for organisations
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
As lockdown restrictions start to ease and businesses begin to reopen, the ICO has set out the key steps organisations need to consider around the use of personal information. Read via the ICO
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EU admits it has been hard to implement GDPR
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Official report to mark two years of data protection regulation notes burden on small and medium-sized companies. Read story by Javier Espinoza in FT.com
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Police in England and Wales taking ‘excessive personal data’ from mobile phones
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Information commissioner says victims and witnesses could be put off reporting crimes and calls for new code. Read story by Owen Bowcott in The Guardian.
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‘Extremely unfortunate data breach’ at Cambridge University clinical school affects over 300 students
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The accidental breach, which exposed some students’ reasons for intermission and their disabilities, will be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Read story by Joe Cook in Varsity
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One in three Britons targeted by scammers since the start of coronavirus crisis, Citizens Advice reveals
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Legal charity has seen a 19 per cent spike in the number of visitors coming to its website in recent months looking for advice from experts. Read story by Dev Kundaliya in Computing.
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UK’s post-Brexit data deals ‘will go further than EU ever could’
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The government sets out a four-pronged approach to the free flow of data and data localisation with Asia-Pacific nations. Read story by Keumars Afifi-Sabet in ITPro
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Babylon Health admits GP app suffered a data breach
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach. The firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients’ consultations. Read story by By Leo Kelion , Technology desk editor – BBC
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