Posts Tagged ‘GDPR’
Facebook are only fined £500,000
You remember the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica mess from earlier this year? Well, Facebook have been issued with a notice that they are to be fined £500,000 as a result of this. “What? Facebook are only fined £500,000?” I hear you cry.
Read MoreGDPR hasn’t gone away.
Something I’ve noticed since the summer holidays came to an end, interest in GDPR related training and discussions have dropped away. I’ve asked around why this might be. The most common type of response is “Sure that GDPR thing was a pile of scare mongering. Nothing has happened. It’s like that Y2K nonsense we had…
Read MoreFacebook Breach – The DPC was very public about it.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you will have heard about the Facebook breach. This is where the accounts of at least 50 million people were compromised by evil doers.
Read MoreHow to deal with Ransomware.
I want to come back to this topic on how to deal with Ransomware. This is because I keep meeting business people in the training that I deliver who, either know of somebody or have themselves, suffered a Ransomware incident.
Read MoreIndividual’s Rights
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) created some new rights for individuals and strengthens some of the rights that previously existed under the Data Protection Act 1988/2003.
Read MoreDodgy extensions and not a builder in sight.
A lot of normal people might think about the phrase “dodgy extensions” and associate it with some kind of cowboy builder. But alas, the dodgy extensions to which I refer are in a web browser and these could lead you to a data breach or worse.
Read MoreHoliday Data Breach Photos.
Most normal people go on holidays, forget about work, relax and enjoy themselves. They also, probably take lots of nice photos of the great places they’ve been and the nice food they’ve eaten. I went on holiday recently in remote, rural Ireland and I did pretty much all of the above.
Read MoreEir laptop theft – could have been worse
The eir laptop theft that was revealed this week was pretty … actually … it was really bad and deeply embarrassing for eir. However details that emerged from the statement by the Data Protection Commission showed that it could have been a LOT worse. 1,500 Laptops worse!
Read MoreIdentity theft enabled by fun quizzes.
If you are on social media, you will no doubt have come across those fun quizzes. You know the ones, “What’s your Westeros name?” or “What was the number 1 song the day you were born?”
Read MoreVPN Logs. Should you be concerned?
I’ve been meaning to write this up since March when I talked about a VPN Leak situation. Are you aware that some VPN providers maintain logs about your usage of their service?
Read MoreData breach video series – CCTV Leakage
Data Breach CCTV Leakage. This short video talks about how allowing CCTV footage to be leaked online is a serious data breach under the #GDPR. For more information or to contact us please visit our website at https://www.L2CyberSecurity.com
Read MoreData breach video series – Open Plan Office
Data Breach Open Plan Office. This short video talks about how having a public space near to an open plan office may lead to a data breach under the #GDPR. A breach may arise where your staff are speaking to other staff or to people on the phone and they are speaking items of personal…
Read MoreData breach video series – Sharing a Password
Data Breach Sharing a Password. This short video talks about how simply sharing your password could be a data breach under the #GDPR. This is because, by giving somebody your password, you are giving them access to everything that you have access to. If you are authorised to access certain personal data, which they are…
Read MoreData breach video series – Personal data on display
Date Breach Personal data on display. This short video talks about how simply leaving somebody’s personal data on display in a public place is a data breach under the #GDPR. For more information or to contact us please visit our website at https://www.L2CyberSecurity.com
Read MoreWho’s been reading your Gmail?
For a long time the answer to the question “Who’s been reading your Gmail?” has been Google’s advertising algorithms. They stated that they have stopped doing that last year. However the ability, by others, to continue to read your e-mail remains, and you may have given some other company access to do so without being…
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