Cyber Crime
Passwords
What makes a good password? What were the most common passwords of last year? What is 2FA? Read our tips to getting your passwords right.
HMRC
Making Tax Digital
Making Tax Digital for Business is HMRC’s commitment to deliver a modern digital tax system and means the end of the paper annual tax return. We take a closer look at what this means for businesses and individuals.
Data Breach
ICO fines Facebook £500,000 for breaches of data protection law
Facebook is fined £500,000 by the ICO for serious breaches of data protection laws after the Cambridge Analytica mass harvesting of user data. At least 1 million UK users, and 87 million users worldwide had their data harvested.
Data Breach
Facebook data breach
Facebook have announced that around 30 million user accounts were accessed on its recent data breach using the ‘view as’ feature to steel access tokens.
Cyber Crime
British Airways Data Breach
British Airways have said that about 380,000 card payments made on its website and mobile app between 10.58pm on 21st August and 9.45 on 5th September have been compromised. Data Types Personal and financial information of customers during that period were compromised, British Airways say that no travel details or Read more…
Data Security
Are your staff cyber-aware?
Cybersecurity in the workplace is essential to protecting your companies information, but everyone needs to know what your policies are and they need to be following them.
Data Security
Encrypting Email & Attachments
Email is not secure. With the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 expecting anyone sending personally identifiable information to take reasonable steps to ensure it’s confidentiality and integrity the need to encrypt emails and attachments is growing. We take a look at some of the options available for individuals and business email and file encryption needs.
Data Breach
Telford Company fined for Data Protection Breach
The ICO have released details of a Telford company who have been fined for a breach of the Data Protection Act in relation to the CCTV footage.
Android
Bug in Samsung Messenger
Bug in Samsung Messenger could send all your photos to your contacts and you won’t even know it’s done it.
Data Protection Act 2018
Make sure you’ve had the right GDPR advice
It’s been a month since the GDPR came into force and we’ve seen lots of great examples of organisations updating their processing policies to be more transparent with the information they process. However, we’ve also seen a few organisations that have ignored or poorly applied the GDPR and as such are in breach of the regulation and exposing themselves to reprimanding measures.