UK businesses received, on average, £237,402 worth of fines following data breaches or violation of data protection rules in the last 12 months according to new research published today by ISMS.online. Data breaches were the second most reported cybersecurity incident…
Traveling isn’t just about discovering new cultures, food, and beautiful landscapes. It’s also about going out of our everyday comfort zone—whether this is a long flight, a confined bus journey, problems communicating with locals, or extreme and unfamiliar weather. However,…
Summary This guidance is the result of a collaborative effort from the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Kingdom National Cyber…
Schedule 1 to these Regulations amends the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1862) (“the GMS Contracts Regulations”) and Schedule 2 to these Regulations amends the National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015 (S.I.…
A GMP officer has been sacked after he used police computer systems to access confidential data, which he then shared with his ex-partner. Sergeant Richard Proctor “abused his position” by using the force’s IT system to carry out multiple checks…
The voting intentions of millions of Britons in local authority wards across the country could have been at risk of misuse as a result of a glitch in the Labour party’s main phone-banking system, the Guardian understands. Experts had warned…
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Yum!, the US-based parent organisation of KFC and Pizza Hut, has written to a number of employees whose data was stolen by the undisclosed ransomware gang that attacked its systems in January 2023, resulting in the temporary closure of 300…
The Data Protection Commission recently published its Annual Report for 2022. Helen Dixon, Commissioner for Data Protection, presented the report which details the broad range of work undertaken by the DPC in 2022. Notably, the DPC issued two-thirds of the…
Here is our round-up of the top data protection and cyber security stories for March 2023, together with practical advice on how to address the legal issues raised. This month in review: The AI Pendulum: In March we saw ChatGPT…