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Millions of Expedia and Booking.com customers at risk after data breach

IT Governance

A database belonging to Prestige Software – containing over 10 million files – has been found publicly accessible online. Security experts working for Website Planet discovered that the Spanish software firm failed to password-protect an AWS S3 bucket that held the personal details of hotel guests dating back to 2013. In total, 24.4

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Automated Security and Compliance Attracts Venture Investors

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I The vision was to automate security and compliance across 14 frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. First of all, cybersecurity is becoming a “must have” for businesses and governments.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2018 – 17,273,571 records leaked

IT Governance

Remember when I said last month that “with the GDPR less than a month away I imagine future lists will be even longer thanks to the introduction of mandatory data breach notifications”? Well, May’s list of incidents is very long, and the GDPR only came into effect at the end of the month. Data breach. I’m not, though.

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2020 in review: July to December

IT Governance

With COVID-19 under control, the UK government announced that lockdown measures would be eased from 4 July, with pubs, cafés, cinemas and museums allowed to reopen. Unfortunately, there was a hitch, with the government forced to scrap its original track and trace app, pushing the launch date back by months. million (about £2.9

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FRANCE: ONE MORE STEP TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF THE NEW FRENCH DATA PROTECTION LAW

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Article 32 of the French Law No.

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CNIL Fines Google and Amazon 135 Million Euros for Alleged Cookie Violations

Hunton Privacy

The French cookie rules are laid down in (1) Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, which implements into French law the provisions of the EU ePrivacy Directive governing the use of cookies; and (2) soft law instruments aimed at guiding operators in implementing Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act in practice.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May.