MyHeritage, a global company offering ancestry and DNA testing services to 95 million users across 196 countries has confirmed the breach of its MyHeritage site. After learning of the breach on the 4th of June, the company issued a statement on their website blog informing registered users that their website had been breached last year […]
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Facebook denies any breach has occurred Facebook is rejecting claims that it has breached privacy pledges made to its users and US regulator, Federal Trade Commission(FTC), after the unearthing of its data-sharing practices with device manufacturers. The 2011 consent decree by the FTC barred Facebook from granting other companies access to the users’ friend’s data […]
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You see it in the headlines (like this) when it happens to someone else, or in this case 90,000 other people. You never think it will happen to you. What happens when your personal data is compromised? What can you do to protect yourself-your identity? Surely many of these consumers are wondering what they should […]
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A recent Thales (a Galaxkey partner) report, Europe edition, identifies the trends in encryption and data security in Europe over the last year. Security breaches continue to persist across Europe despite growing security efforts. Worryingly it seems that efforts are still not being deployed effectively (often misplaced) when trying to combat the cybersecurity threats. Organisations are […]
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A traffic fine platform has leaked sensitive personal data of nearly 1 million South Africans. The information included full names, national identity numbers (ID numbers), email addresses and passwords. All the personal information was unencrypted (stored in plain text format). Australian Security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs the website Have I Been Pwned? worked with Tefo […]
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the University of Greenwich £120,000 for a serious security breach. The personal data including names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and signatures of 19,500 students and staff was compromised. Additionally, sensitive data of 3,500 people was breached. The personal information was uploaded to a microsite developed by […]
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There has always been a need for data protection and security in business. Issues around the protection, management and security of data have always been critically important but have not always been prioritised as such. Previously, decision-makers have focused their time and resources on the core business targets to grow their business, leaving security as […]
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The Galaxkey Development Team has been super busy resulting in the official launch of two new Galaxkey features- now part of our ever-growing Galaxkey data protection toolkit. Both Authorised Data Distribution (ADD) and Classification are ready for our customers to use! With the impending GDPR, there seems no better time than the present to reveal […]
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Users of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) have been warned about a number of critical vulnerabilities relating to those technologies. The discovery was made by a team of European researchers, including Damian Poddebniak, Christian Dresen, Fabian Ising, and Sebastian Schinzel from Munster University of Applied Sciences; Jens Müller, Juraj Somorovsky, […]
With just two weeks to go until GDPR comes into effect, your organisation should be well on the way to becoming fully compliant. This includes a full audit of all the data you hold (and why), securing the support of staff in adhering to the new legislation and beginning to look at improved software and […]
There are 23 days to go to GDPR D-day! On the 25th May, the EU General Data Protection Regulation will be enforced. There is one particular area of the regulation that seems to be attracting an awful lot of attention and is being debated by many. It is the right to erasure, also referred to […]
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In 2008 Facebook set up its international headquarters in Ireland to benefit from the low corporate tax. This meant that all users outside of the US and Canada were protected by European regulations. Facebooks involvement in the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal and its scrutiny from governments, legal entities and regulators, across the globe, has put […]
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