After Tested.me, ICO Fines Amex For Sending Millions of Unwanted Emails
We often receive calls from different bankers promoting their products and services. While these calls are largely ignored, very few question the rationale behind...
ICO Fines Contact Tracing Service Tested.me for Misusing User Data
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a contact tracing service provider Tested.me for misusing users’ personal data. In an official notice, the...
ICO’s Ticket for Data Breach! Ticketmaster Fined £1.25 Mn Over 2018 Cyberattack
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently penalized Ticketing website Ticketmaster for £1.25 million ($1.65 million) following a data breach in 2018. The privacy...
Lack of Digital Interaction is a Barrier Between U.K. Banks and Customers: FICO
FICO, a global analytics software provider, highlighted all the major barriers to digital interaction between banks and its customer, by surveying security decision makers...
Biggest ICO Fine! British Airways Fined £20 Mn over 2018 Data Breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the U.K. fined British Airways (BA) £20 million (approximately US$26 million) for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive...
Israel’s Tower Semiconductor Hit by a Cyberattack
Israel’s semiconductor and chip manufacturer, Tower Semiconductor, announced of a cyberattack that forced its certain operations to a complete halt. The company authorities said...
Whistle-Blower Reports to ICO Increase by 34% in the Last Year
Ever since the GDPR was introduced, disclosure of security incidents via whistle-blower reports has increased significantly. According to a report from RPC, a legal...
CISO: The Technical Unicorn
A lone sentry stands guard on the eastern end of a towering granite stone wall with sweeping views of the approaching terrain. Bravely, he...
Football Site Fun Fantastico Suffers Data Breach; 150,000 Records Exposed
A security investigation from cybersecurity firm WizCase discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 server that exposed data of Mexican football site, Fut Fantastico. The data...
UK ICO Fines Cathay Pacific with £500,000 for 2018 Data Breach
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Hong Kong-based air carrier Cathay Pacific guilty on various counts of data breach reported by the latter...
