Category: Industry News

• by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
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Group of campaigners says the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 risks criminalising cyber security professionals and needs reforming read via Computer Weekly.

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of special category data. Read via ICO.

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European data protection authorities have received more than 160,000 data-breach notifications since GDPR came into force in May 2018 Read via Computing.co.uk

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Job performance details about more than 900 employees of a major office-space provider have been published online by accident after a staff review. Read via BBCNews.

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The number of London councils reporting lost or stolen mobile computing devices has more than doubled over the past three financial years, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data. Read via InfoSecurityMag. 

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IE zero-day connected to last week’s Firefox zero-day. Read via ZDnet.

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Google and the Interactive Advertising Bureau have been accused of designing an illegal system to sell targeted advertisements. Read via Sky News. 

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has amended its guidance on the timescales for compliance with data subject access requests (DSARs) where the data controller has requested clarification. Read via Mondaq.

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Passport scans and other personal data was stored on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket by a company called CHS Consulting. Read via Computing.