Europe

Many companies are embracing the GDPR as an opportunity to improve privacy, security, and data management, by cutting down on the amount of personal data they keep, ditching …

As software gets embedded in more and more things we use every day, the problem of software vulnerability reporting and patching rises in importance. Unfortunately, only a few …

UK organisations are leaving themselves vulnerable to cybercrime with over a third of 18-24-year-olds able to access any files on their company network, and only one in five …

The “Black Hand” forum, considered to be one of the most important illegal platforms of the dark web in France, has been dismantled by French law enforcement. …

Dixons Carphone, the multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer that holds over 2,000 stores across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe, has suffered a security …

CNIL, the French data protection authority, has decided to impose a 250,000 euro fine on Optical Center, a French company selling eye and hearing aids, because it failed to …

A new Avecto survey explored IT and security’s role in helping companies achieve compliance with the new guidelines for the collection and processing of personal …

In this podcast, Darron Gibbard, Chief Technical Security Officer EMEA at Qualys, discusses third-party risk and how it affects the GDPR compliance of your organization. …

Despite the significant financial penalties, US consumers have tended to look away or forgive brands in the aftermath of a breach, but recent research shows that this is no …

It took two years and a collaborative effort of French, Belgian, Romanian and Israeli law enforcement agencies to take down an organised crime group that was behind at least …

Dutch consumer protection organization Consumentenbond took Samsung Netherlands to court, arguing that the company should provide updates and upgrades for their telephones …

According to Forrester, 80 percent of companies likely didn’t comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, and of those, 50 percent intentionally …