Since the inception of Facebook, we have seen it develop and evolve rapidly. From its early days as a social network to share posts and photos with friends and colleagues, it has now become a massive global advertising network. Did you know Facebook has approximately 2.41 billion monthly active users? As the biggest worldwide social…

First published by Rob Sobers, 10 Jul 2019. Each year, Varonis conducts thousands of data risk assessments for organizations that want a clearer picture of their security posture and develop a roadmap to reducing risk to sensitive data. The 2019 Data Risk Report analyzes a random sample of nearly 800 risk assessments, giving you an…

First published by Carolyn Cummins, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 30 2019. LandMark White claims it is the victim of a saboteur bent on destroying the listed valuation firm after it was hit with another data leak.  On Thursday night, the company revealed that valuation and related commercial documents had been uploaded to international document…

Published by Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • June 20, 2019     The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay hackers about $600,000 in bitcoin to end a ransomware attack that crippled the city’s IT infrastructure for nearly a month Riviera Beach is one of several governmental units hit by ransomware attacks during the…

First published by Shawn Lim–24 May 2019 07:56am, thedrum.com Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has introduced three new initiatives which aim to promote innovation through trust by holding businesses accountable for the way they collect consumers’ personal data. Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s data protection initiative GDPR, the PDPC, which…

Published by CPO Magazine. In response to the changing data privacy landscape created by the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, CPO Magazine has released a comprehensive report outlining the challenges and priorities of data protection and privacy officers around the world in 2019. The report is based on a…

Hacker claims to have stolen the data of 139 million Canva users. Original story by ZDNet, Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | May 24, 2019 Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach,…

Article authored by Robert Merrick and Suzanne Ryan As personal information has become a monetizable asset, risk, compliance and data experts have increasingly been forced to address the regulatory and operational ramifications of the rapid, mass availability of personal customer and employee data circulated both inside and outside of organizations. Particularly in Canada and the…

Mark Jow shares some points that organizations should consider when analysing whether data protection processes and strategies are sufficient to meet the differing requirements of disaster recovery and data security. In today’s digital economy, simply capturing and storing data is no longer enough. In order to succeed, organizations need to re-think how they analyse and…

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined commercial pregnancy and parenting club Bounty some £400,000 for illegally sharing personal details of more than 14 million people. The organisation, which dishes out advice to expectant and inexperienced parents, has faced criticism over the tactics it uses to sign up new members and was the subject of a…