Security News

Keeping data swamps clean for ongoing GDPR compliance
2018-11-29 04:00

The increased affordability and accessibility of data storage over recent years can be both a benefit and a challenge for businesses. While the ability to stockpile huge volumes and varieties of...

Will We Get a GDPR for the IoT?
2018-11-28 16:13

It might then be a good idea to imbue IoT security with the kind of weight that the GDPR gives personal data.

Google Faces GDPR Complaints Over Web, Location Tracking
2018-11-28 09:48

Search Giant's Pervasive Tracking Isn't Clear to Consumers, Groups ContendConsumer organizations in seven countries plan to file complaints alleging that Google is violating the EU's General Data...

GDPR’s impact: The first six months
2018-11-26 07:00

GDPR is now six months old – it’s time to take an assessment of the regulation’s impact so far. At first blush it would appear very little has changed. There are no well-publicized actions being...

'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine
2018-11-23 13:15

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people,...

WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked
2018-11-13 12:48

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

M&A transactions may be stalling due to GDPR compliance concerns
2018-11-13 06:45

An increasing number of M&A transactions may be stalling because of concerns over GDPR compliance, according to a survey of EMEA M&A professionals conducted by Merrill Corporation. Overall, the...

Hackers Exploit Flaw in GDPR Compliance Plugin for WordPress
2018-11-12 06:54

A critical security flaw affecting a GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress has been exploited in the wild to take control of vulnerable websites, users have been warned. read more

Irony meters explode as WordPress GDPR tool hacked, cell network hack shenanigans, crypto-backdoors, etc...
2018-11-10 08:08

Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…

GDPR USA? 'A year ago, hell no ... More people are open to it now' – House Rep says EU-like law may be mulled
2018-11-08 23:04

Mega-hacks nudge Congress to consider privacy standard The rash of high-profile IT security breaches, data thefts, and other hacks that have erupted over the last year or so may push US...