LAST WEEK IN PRIVACY & DATA PROTECTION

58th Weekly Newsletter -> 21–27 August 2017
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UK Government Report: 2/3 of UK Businesses not Ready for Cyber Attacks
The British Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) conducted a research and a so-called “cyber health check” that examined the size of the cyber security and data protection challenge. The research showed that one in 10 FTSE 350 companies operate without a response plan for a cyber incident. Only six percent of the businesses are prepared for new data protection rules. A survey further revealed that 68 percent boards of directors at 350 of Britain’s biggest companies had not received cyber incident related training, even though 54 percent of them said that cyber threats were a top risk to their business. DCMS thus urged UK’s top firms and charities to do more to protect themselves from online threats, Xinhua news agency reported.
Read more HERE
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Hackers Revealed HBO Social Network Login Credentials
Following a massive cyber attack suffered by HBO, which amon others resulted in a leaked Game of Thrones episode, the hackers behind the attack now claim that they also got access to the login credentials for almost every single HBO social media account. The hackers claim to posses HBO passwords for everything from @HBO, @GameOfThrones, and @WestworldHBO to various Instagram and Giphy accounts. They demand roughly $6.5 million worth of Bitcoin as ransom from HBO.
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UK ICO Warns of Nuisance Calls Consequences
Last week the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined a domestic energy saving firm Home Logic UK Ltd £50,000 for making marketing calls to people who had made it clear they didn’t want to be contacted in that way. ICO received 133 complaints from members of the public about nuisance calls made to their TPS-registered numbers by Southampton-based Home Logic. Following the penalty the ICO Head of Enforcement warned that “organisations have no excuse — they know that calling people on the TPS register is against the law and that we will come down hard on them if they don’t respect the public’s right to privacy.”
Read more HERE
Read the Monetary Penalty Notice HERE
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Compiled by Jernej Mavrič, email: jm@dp-recruitment.com
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