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IT Governance Podcast 08.09.23: Electoral Commission (again), Meta, Pôle emploi

IT Governance

This week, we discuss security issues at the Electoral Commission, Meta’s appeal against daily GDPR fines, and a breach affecting 10 million users of the French unemployment agency Pôle emploi. The Cyber Essentials scheme is a government-backed framework supported by the National Cyber security Centre.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

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Flaw in WordPress ThemeGrill Demo Importer WordPress theme plugin expose 200K+ sites to hack

Security Affairs

Experts from the security firm WebARX have discovered a serious flaw in the WordPress theme plugin ThemeGrill Demo Importer with over 200,000 active installs. Once the attackers have exploited the vulnerability, the database will be populated with default settings and data. 11-02-2020 – Second attempt to reach out to the developer.

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South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, Goes into Effect July 1

Hunton Privacy

In this respect, POPIA came into force over a period of time, with the initial provisions enabling, among other things, the establishment of the SAIR coming into effect on April 11, 2014. Similar to the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, POPIA establishes eight conditions for lawful processing of data.

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Hacking eCommerce sites based on OXID eShop by chaining 2 flaws

Security Affairs

Experts discovered two critical security issues that affect recent versions of Enterprise, Professional, and Community Editions of OXID eShop software. “The administrator has the possibility to import articles by uploading a CSV file which is loaded into the $data array of the following code snippet.” Marriott, GDPR).

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

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.