Published by Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • June 20, 2019 The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay hackers about $600,000 in bitcoin to end a ransomware attack that crippled the city’s IT infrastructure for nearly a month Riviera Beach is one of several governmental units hit by ransomware attacks during the…
First published by Shawn Lim–24 May 2019 07:56am, thedrum.com Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has introduced three new initiatives which aim to promote innovation through trust by holding businesses accountable for the way they collect consumers’ personal data. Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s data protection initiative GDPR, the PDPC, which…
Published by CPO Magazine. In response to the changing data privacy landscape created by the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, CPO Magazine has released a comprehensive report outlining the challenges and priorities of data protection and privacy officers around the world in 2019. The report is based on a…
Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data. Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info. First published by Thomas Clanburn, 17th May 2019, theregister.co.uk. Unlucky Salesforce customers have been unable to reach the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to…
Hacker claims to have stolen the data of 139 million Canva users. Original story by ZDNet, Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | May 24, 2019 Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach,…
In Andy Patrizio’s article published in Network World, he explains how the rise of edge computing and related surge in data produced by the internet of things requires the function of enterprise data centers to shift to handling long-term data aggregation and analysis. The Internet as we have all known it mirrors the design of…
In his recent article, Robert Seiner gets to the heart of the importance of Data Governance. Posted on April 17, 2019 by Robert S. Seiner The secret lies with Data Governance. The Chief Data Officer (or whoever the Data Czar is at your organization) needs to get past, and I mean way past, the “Why…
Article authored by Robert Merrick and Suzanne Ryan As personal information has become a monetizable asset, risk, compliance and data experts have increasingly been forced to address the regulatory and operational ramifications of the rapid, mass availability of personal customer and employee data circulated both inside and outside of organizations. Particularly in Canada and the…
Mark Jow shares some points that organizations should consider when analysing whether data protection processes and strategies are sufficient to meet the differing requirements of disaster recovery and data security. In today’s digital economy, simply capturing and storing data is no longer enough. In order to succeed, organizations need to re-think how they analyse and…
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined commercial pregnancy and parenting club Bounty some £400,000 for illegally sharing personal details of more than 14 million people. The organisation, which dishes out advice to expectant and inexperienced parents, has faced criticism over the tactics it uses to sign up new members and was the subject of a…