So you think you know what “privacy is. You probably know that the GDPR addresses privacy and have discussed privacy as part of your compliance – but did you know there is no definition for privacy included in the regulations? I have written an article on the Octagon blog looking …
Cloud services – if breached what do they leak about your business
What information do you and I entrust to cloud services? We all like cloud services – for modern businesses, especially smaller businesses they give access to software, services and functionality that when we started Octagon Technology would have been beyond their reach. Then there are the back-ups – in the …
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Children’s names revealed in a Council data breach
Bristol City Council has distributed the details of families with disabled children without their permission. This was not really a data breach more a data giveaway as the Council simply sent out an email to people asking for comments on their services and all the email details were readable to …
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Do not overshare information
It started as a simple desire to add the dates and times to my calendar when the San Francisco 49ers were playing their matches. Unlike many (most) people I read the terms and conditions and exactly what the service wanted me to share with them! In this article I eventually …
Educational institutions around the world suffer ransomware attack
A hack targeted at Blackbaud – a company providing educational support services – has compromised data belonging to universities and institution around the world. Under various laws this was a notifiable incident – the UK law states that the ICO must be informed within 72 hours – however Blackbaud took …
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