The Polish data protection authority has for the first time imposed a fine on a company for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The company, whose name is not mentioned, processed personal data obtained from public sources. It would be about 6 million records. The persons in question were not aware of this and … Read more
The passwords of millions of Facebook users were accessible by up to 20,000 employees of the social network. Security researcher Brian Krebs broke the news about data protection failures, which saw up to 600 million passwords stored in plain text. Most of the people affected were users of Facebook Lite, which tends to be used … Read more
A man sent Google and Facebook invoices for items they hadn’t purchased and that he hadn’t provided, which Google and Facebook paid anyway. Apparently, no one checked first to see if these corresponded to invoices/POs that had been issued within the companies. Read more about this topic at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/24/evaldas-rimasauskas.html
Grove Pension Solutions Ltd which relied on ‘misleading’ professional advice has been fined £40,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for being responsible for sending nearly two million direct marketing emails without consent. The ICO has fined the pensions company under PECR. Read more about this topic at: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/03/ico-fines-kent-pensions-company-for-sending-nearly-2-million-spam-emails/
AI enables computers to make intelligent decisions in order to perform diverse tasks while operating to learn by collecting, processing, and linking huge amounts of data, of which a large part might be personal data. Also called machine learning, this principle simply means that the more data that is available to be consumed, the better … Read more
Tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through its trusted automatic software update tool after attackers compromised the company’s server and used it to push the malware to machines. Half a million Windows machines received a malicious backdoor through the ASUS update server, although the attackers appear … Read more
Platforms like YouTube and Facebook to a set of new obligations to strike licensing deals and face new obligations to monitor their sites for any copyright-infringing content and removing any that falls under those licensing deals.. “Today’s vote ensures the right balance between the interests of all players — users, creators, authors, press — while … Read more
In the past two weeks, more than 1200 citizens have called European Members to convince them to vote against the proposed new copyright rules. They did this via the website Pledge2019.eu, a campaign website. With less than two weeks to go to the final vote only the European Parliament can stop the upload filter. On … Read more
Hydro with 35,000 employees with smelting plants, factories and offices in 40 countries – globally experienced a ransomware attack since Monday was forced to switch some systems to manual operation. The ransomware used might have been the relatively new and difficult-to-detect strain, dubbed LockerGoga, which criminals use to quickly encrypt computer files, before demanding payment … Read more
Group-IB said it discovered and reported to FILA UK malware known as GMO that was active on the fashion brand’s website for the past four months – and may have sniffed the payment card information of thousands of customers placing online orders through the tainted pages.“Cybercriminals might have injected a malicious code by either exploiting … Read more