Kathleen Hall reports: Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted laptops, according to an audit report. The news follows the theft of…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Council data breaches increase by ‘alarming’ 1,600 per cent
Data breaches across the UK have dramatically increased in the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Information disclosed by the Information Commissioner’s Office to a data security firm showed a major growth in self-reported data breaches every year. On average the increase since 2007 stood at more than 1,000…
Imation Compliance Heat Map
From Imation: To help businesses and IT pros navigate the compliance landscape and develop secure and functional infrastructures for data storage and protection, Imation created a Compliance Heat Map to depict the strictness of data breach laws and resulting penalties for breaches by state. Based on first-hand experience working with companies that face compliance challenges,…
More services should fall within scope of EU security breach rules, ENISA says
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) said that LinkedIn and Research In Motion (RIM) were examples of businesses that had not been subject to EU laws on security breaches when they both experienced incidents within the past year. Currently EU laws require that firms that provide “public communications networks or electronic communications services”…
Will the High Court Resolve ‘Without Authorization’ Under the CFAA?
Nick Akerman has an article in the upcoming issue of The National Law Journal that begins: On July 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first circuit to adopt the Ninth Circuit’s holding in U.S. v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012), that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does…
NZ: Report: Systemic weaknesses at ACC
Adam Bennett and Kate Shuttleworth report: Bronwyn Pullar, the woman at the centre of a massive privacy scandal at ACC is “delighted” with an independent report into the affair that identified “systemic weakness” in the way the corporation handled private client data. The report by former Australian Privacy Commissioner Malcolm and accountancy firm KPMG released…