ICO statement in response to Dixons Carphone breach announcement
ICO statement in response to Dixons Carphone breach announcement. Link: ICO statement in response to Dixons Carphone breach announcement Source: ICO .org.uk Source: PUBLISH TO RB
Yahoo! fined £250,000 after systemic failures put customer data at risk
Yahoo! UK Services Limited has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack in November 2014. Link: Yahoo! fined £250,000 after systemic failures put customer data at risk Source: ICO .org.uk Source: PUBLISH TO…
Ways to Measure Health and Safety Performance
The purpose of health & safety in the workplace is simple: prevent illness, injury, and death. Yet some businesses relegate health & safety to the status of tick-box inconvenience due to being too heavily focused on employee productivity and financial…
Risk Digest: Facebook Software Bug means Privacy of Millions is Affected
Facebook software bug affects the privacy of millions, the biggest health and safety in court news stories from SHP over the past month and the moment Sir David Attenborough, came face-to-face with himself in virtual reality. Information Security “British security researcher who…
Bible Society fined £100,000 after security failings put supporters’ personal data at risk
The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a cyber-attack in 2016. Link: Bible Society fined £100,000 after security failings…
Press release: Self-parking cars could be on a street near you by 2021
Specialist UK technology and automotive businesses invited to bid for £30m to help make self-parking cars a reality Two new funding competitions will also create two permanent self-driving test sites in the UK, the first of the kind in Europe…
Risk Digest: Tesco to ban all non-recyclable plastic by 2019
Tesco to ban all non-recyclable plastic by 2019, WhatsApp bug allows blocked contacts to message people, TSB apologised after cancelling some ex-customers’ direct debits and told firms they were paying that they’d died. Information Security “Hackers penetrated an unsecured microsite…
New data protection laws put people first
Today (25 May) marks the biggest change to UK data protection law in a generation. Link: New data protection laws put people first Source: ICO .org.uk Source: PUBLISH TO RB
Beyond 2018 – data protection laws built to last
Elizabeth Denham welcomes the new Data Protection Act 2018 alongside the GDPR. Organisations and data protection professionals could use this as an introduction to the new Act. Link: Beyond 2018 – data protection laws built to last Source: ICO .org.uk…
Risk Digest: New Label to Help Shoppers Classify Plastic-Free Packaging
Iceland has identified which of its own-label products use plastic-free packaging, two thirds of us suffer a mental health problem in our lifetimes, details released of the first ever console controller designed for disabled gamers and more. Information Security “A widely…