Niall McCreanor Archive
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 …
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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. You might think that’s an impossibly short deadline, but don’t fear, you’re …
Nearly 60% of organisations will fall victim to an email-based attack this year, and there’s a good chance the guilty party will be the CEO, according to Mimecast’s The State of Email Security 2018. According to the report, 37% of …
Complying with the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is mostly about hard work and organisation, but there’s also a little bit of luck involved – at least when it comes to appointing a DPO (data protection officer). The position, …
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. Those being examined …
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 …
