Deep Secure
A report from British security firm Deep Secure has highlighted a worryingly high number of employees would exploit their companies data for their own gain.
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Black Country Business Festival : Meet The Professionals
If you’re looking to start a new business, or want help making your business grow, come along to the ‘Meet The Professionals’ event at the Black Country Business Festival.
It’s a free to attend event, but you’ll need to book a place as they are limited and get taken quickly.
There will be other professional organisations, specialist advisors and individuals looking to start their new business, or to grow it.
We will be talking about all things IT, so if you have a question or need some advice on anything IT related, from emails, domains, websites and other startup services, to GDPR, network management and data security, come and find us on the professionals stage, or in the networking hall afterwards.
To book your tickets
- Call Access To Business on 01902 572397
- Book online at bcbf19.ticketleap.com
- See the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1371384643000728/
Authorised Push Payment fraud on the rise
Authorised Push Payment Fraud
Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud is big business for the criminals, and for good reason. Last year it netted them £355,000,000 in the UK, with two thirds of that coming from personal bank accounts, and the rest from business bank accounts. Only £83,000,000 was recovered from the criminals.
Read moreTruth or Fiction?
The golden age of the internet news is over! The amount of fake news is outpacing fact based news, and being able to filter out what’s real and what is fake is getting more difficult. No longer are the fake posts and emails littered with bad English and obvious fake links, it’s now almost impossible to spot as it’s delivered with the same quality and backing as genuine news.
We’ve listed below some of the best fact-checking websites available.
Read moreASUS Computers infected with backdoor malware ‘ShadowHammer’
Kaspersky have identified backdoor malware being sent out from ASUS servers via it’s trusted automatic software update tool. The malware was inserted via a compromised server used to send out the software updates.
Read moreICO : Jayana Morgan Davis
Birmingham :
Jayana Morgan Davis
Jayana Morgan Davis forwarded several emails containing personal information from her work account at V12 Sports and Classics Ltd to her personal email account. The information related to customers and employees of V12 Sports and Classics Ltd.
She was fined under the Data Protection Act 1998 of unlawfully obtaining personal data, and ordered to pay costs of £590 and a victim surcharge of £30.
“People expect that their personal information will be treated with respect and privacy. Unfortunately, there are those who abuse their position of trust and the ICO will take action against them for breaking data protection laws.”
Mike Shaw, ICO Criminal Investigations Team
General Data Protection Regulations
Data Protection Act 2018
The GDPR UK implementation and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 govern how organisations can process personally identifying information.
If your organisation needs to process personal information, it needs to be registered on the ICO database, and have a Data Protection Policy in place detailing the use of personal information.
Personal Information is any information that can identify an individual, such as employee names, customer id’s or CCTV footage.
If you need help assessing your GDPR compliance, contact us immediately for a GDPR review.
ICO : Faye Caughey
Birmingham : Faye Caughey
Faye Caughey, a former Heart Of England NHS Foundations Trust administrator, has been prosecuted for accessing the medical records of patients without authorisation and without any need to do so. The records related to family members and children known to her, and came from the HEFT iCare and CareFirst system.
She was fined £1000 under the Data Protection Act 1998, and ordered to pay costs of £590 and a victim surcharge of £50
“People expect that their personal information will be treated with respect and privacy. Unfortunately, there are those who abuse their position of trust and the ICO will take action against them for breaking data protection laws.”
Mike Shaw, ICO Criminal Investigations Team
General Data Protection Regulations
Data Protection Act 2018
The GDPR UK implementation and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 govern how organisations can process personally identifying information.
If your organisation needs to process personal information, it needs to be registered on the ICO database, and have a Data Protection Policy in place detailing the use of personal information.
Personal Information is any information that can identify an individual, such as employee names, customer id’s or CCTV footage.
If you need help assessing your GDPR compliance, contact us immediately for a GDPR review.
Magecart
Cast your minds back to September 6th 2018 and you may recall that British Airways announced the theft of customers data, including payment information, over about a week in late August. About 380,000 customers had their information lifted from the website, but this wasn’t a typical breach where the company servers were infiltrated, this was more like a purely digital version of the card skimmers that were used to get your card details when you used an ATM.
Read moreGoogle Drive Outage
Some users of Google drive are still seeing issues trying to access the service after a service disruption during the night.
Google AU
The outage was first reported in Australia. Users said they could not access Google Drive or Google Maps, the outage spread to Asia and Europe during the night, but by 6.13am GMT Google reported that they had started to restore access and resolve the issues.
Passwords
PASSWORDS
They are a requirement of modern life on the internet. But what makes for a good password? how can you have a different password for each site? and what is 2FA?
We’ve cobbled together the best tips and tricks for managing your passwords and keeping your accounts safe.
Jump to: Good Passwords V Bad Passwords, Worst Password List, Check Password Strength, Reusing Passwords, Pwned Email, Don’t Remember Passwords, 2FA, USB Security Keys
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