Niall McCreanor Archive
That’s where penetration testing comes in. It’s essentially a controlled form of hacking in which a professional tester, working on behalf of an organisation, uses the same techniques as a criminal hacker to search for vulnerabilities in the company’s networks …
400 organisations and public authorities have been audited by the Swedish Data Inspectorate in its first review, to ascertain whether a DPO (data protection officer) has been appointed where required. The review showed deficiencies in nearly 25% of the organisations …
Under the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), organisations must report personal data breaches to their supervisory authority within 72 hours of discovering or becoming aware of it.
A recent study by the Norwegian government has found that Facebook and Google push users to share private information by using “invasive” and limited default options. The Norwegian Consumer Council’s Deceived By Design report suggests that the tech giants’ privacy …
The Data Inspectorate of Sweden has begun its first reviews under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to ascertain whether authorities and companies that are obliged to appoint a DPO (data protection officer) have done so.
A recent survey by the Danish Society of Engineers’ IT subsidiary, IDA-it, concluded that two thirds of businesses had experienced a cyber attack, and that up to one in eight cyber attacks carried out against Danish organisations are successful. IDA-it …
DSB, the Danish state rail operator, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on Sunday, April 13. A DDoS attack attempts to disrupt a host or network from connecting to the Internet in order to render a network …
If you’ve been reading about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you probably know that massive changes to the way organisations collect personal data will soon be made. The days of stashing away as much data as possible and …
Lawmakers and journalists have made bold claims about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) over the past few years. ‘It will mitigate the threat of cyber attacks’. ‘It will give individuals more control over their personal data’. ‘It will …
Not so long ago, marketers believed programmatic advertising (the use of someone’s personal data to create targeted ads) was “the next big thing”, but many people now claim that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR) is the “death knell” …
