Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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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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 …
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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You have seen it in the movies – an insect sized spy camera – now it is a fact!
NHS Orkney has sent confidential patient information, related to Covid-19 to local businesses by mistake. An investigation by the Trust says it was “administrative error” but to the patients concerned it would have been a breach of their privacy. The Trust has no idea who could have read – or …
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