The ICO has fined telecoms company EE Limited £100,000 for sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to its customers, without consent. The messages, sent in early 2018, encouraged customers […]
This one is being played out in public which is a change from the usual shadowy ‘nation-state’ attacks. I wonder if the US have actually used their more powerful tools […]
Statement from ICO Deputy Commissioner for Operations, James Dipple-Johnstone. Original article here
Much as selling an old computer comes with risks, selling an old IoT device might leave you unexpectedly exposed…: Google has reportedly fixed a bug that let former owners of used Nest […]
Click- or Browse-wrap agreements (simple tick-box stuff) on websites have a patchy history of being enforceable. This case makes the point that repeated use of a website may imply acceptance […]
I’ve been running demos of Wifi attacks for years (I can remember a session in Warsaw in 2001…). I don’t do anything sensitive without a VPN (application and/or network layer). […]
The history of exposing machine learning algorithms to the world shows how easy it is to ‘pollute’ the data. Here’s an idea from Australia to protect them…: Researchers from Data61, […]
Doing business in Russia. Time to review your data localisation practises…: On June 13, 2019, a new draft bill imposing multi-million Ruble (RUB) fines for infringing Russian data localization and […]
Note that no-one score even two out of five in this report…: Dimension Data has revealed exclusive findings from its Executive Guide to NTT Security’s 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report, […]
In recent months we’ve been reviewing how personal data is used in real time bidding (RTB) in programmatic advertising, engaging with key stakeholders directly and via our fact-finding forum event […]