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Regulatory compliance and standard requirements

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  ICO issues maximum £500,000 fine to Facebook

  The UK privacy watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has escaped a fine of more than $1bn under the GDPR, but will face the maximum under the DPA for failing to protect users’ personal information

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Cathay Pacific under fire over breach affecting 9.4 million passengers

  Hong Kong-based airline reveals massive data breach of the most sensitive personal data of passengers five months after loss was confirmed

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Becrypt security platform helps ease cloud adoption

  Becrypt’s secure operating system is driving a new service aimed at helping organisations reduce cost and increase agility in using cloud-based services and online applications

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Morrisons loses appeal against data breach liability ruling

  Supermarket chain has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling that found it liable for a data leak by a former employee, underlining the importance of managing insider threats

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Learn lessons from attacks, says McAfee investigations chief

  Organisations should use every cyber attack as an opportunity to learn, identify weaknesses and improve security posture, according to McAfee’s head of cyber investigations

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  NHS standards framework aims to set the bar for quality and efficiency

  NHS Digital’s standards framework sets out renewed commitment to implement and use open standards across the NHS

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Tech companies should not be under legal duty to remove terrorist material, says watchdog

  The internet should not be a safe place for terrorists, but making it compulsory for technology companies to trawl for radical content risks interfering with the rights of innocent people, says Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Good data governance is good business

  Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law

  Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  MEPs urge Facebook to roll out election fraud prevention measures

  Facebook is coming under pressure from European lawmakers to do more to prevent its user data from being misappropriated during elections

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Detail of Dutch reaction to Russian cyber attack made public deliberately

  Four Russian intelligence officials were expelled from the Netherlands after an attempted hack on the global chemical weapons watchdog. The Dutch government has been open about the detail

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  High Court blocks Google iPhone privacy lawsuit

  The UK High Court has thrown out a group action lawsuit against Google for tracking iPhone browsing data, but campaign group Google You Owe Us, which brought the litigation, will appeal the decision

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  ICO hits Heathrow Airport with £120,000 data breach fine over lost USB stick

  Information Commissioner’s Office fines airport after a member of the public came across a USB stick containing sensitive personal information about airport staff