Category Archives: Data Breach

First GDPR sanctions are underway: the German case

On 22 November 2018, the Baden-Württenberg Data Protection Authority (LfDI) announced, with a press release available here in German, of having imposed a € 20.000 sanction on the chat site Knuddels.de, for breach of Art. 32 of the GDPR. Knuddels is an online chat service that was popular in the 2000s, before the Facebook era.… Read More: First GDPR sanctions are underway: the German case »

GDPR in practice

Everybody is talking about GDPR in every session at Security Summit this year, whatever the topic, but in practice what companies are doing to get prepared? Alessandro Vallega started from here to introduce the conference dedicated by Europrivacy to the new European Regulation, on the second day of the Summit organized by Clusit in Milan.… Read More: GDPR in practice »

Consider costs of unsecurity when budgeting

Computerweekly reports that Yahoo’s shareholdwers had to accep a relevant cut on the transaction with Verizon to sell Yahoo due to the security breaches that came into light over the last months: 350 M$. Not peanuts. How much security could have they bought for such an amount of money? It is interesting to take these… Read More: Consider costs of unsecurity when budgeting »

UK institutional “data breach” … HSCIC asks for an inconsistent consent …

A recent decision of the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/) has manifested a fear that for years affected the UK (and not only) and that it is the focus of the discussions between the associations for the protection of clients/patients/data subjects. The above document states that the British “Data Controller” has experienced an anomaly related to… Read More: UK institutional “data breach” … HSCIC asks for an inconsistent… »

Cyber Crime and Compliance at Milan Politecnico

The headlines go to the Cyber Crime attacks, but ultimately the Compliance remains the main expense leverage in IT security, at least for SMEs. That’s what emerges from the 2016 Survey by the Information Security & Privacy Observatory of the Milan Politecnico School of Management, presented on 2/2 at the conference “Cyber Crime: the invisible threat… Read More: Cyber Crime and Compliance at Milan Politecnico »

Commission launched a public consultation on ENISA

“ENISA is the Agency of the European Union tasked with contributing to the enhancement of the overall level of cybersecurity of the EU and its Member States. This consultation kicks off the review of ENISA, whose current mandate will come to an end in 2020. The European Commission welcomes the views of all interested stakeholders… Read More: Commission launched a public consultation on ENISA »