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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

Among other news: Lancashire-based Lad Media was wound up , and its director, Keith Hancock, was banned from forming or managing an organisation for four years, after the company was deemed to have violated the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). Unsurprisingly, the judge dismissed the case.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. When serious stolen payment card shop vendors wish to communicate that a batch of cards is uniquely their handiwork or that of their immediate crew, they refer to it as “our base.”