Twilio, a company providing services such as two-factor authentication (2FA), has confirmed hackers’ access to its customer data. The hackers gained access by tricking its employees into sharing their credentials Read more on TechCrunch
A cyber attack has hit the UK National Health Service (NHS) 111 telephone service delaying response times and other services such as patient referrals, out-of-hours appointment bookings, and emergency prescriptions. The target of the breach was Advanced, a company supplying software for about 85% of the NHS hotline’s services. The UK Government is now working...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) regularly publishes TechSonar reports to anticipate emerging technology trends with the main aim of better understanding future developments in the technology sector under the data protection perspective. Read the full report here
Verizon has just released its 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), which started to be published 15 years ago. The Report underlines that “the past year has been extraordinary in a number of ways, but it was certainly memorable with regard to the murky world of cybercrime. From very well publicized critical infrastructure attacks to...
The Government of India has withdrawn the Data Protection Bill that was pending before Parliament. The Government was reviewing the same and was expected to make some changes. It would appear that the Government intends to draft a new legislation entirely, possibly as part of a larger legislation covering the digital ecosystem. Based on past...
Matouk Bassiouny law firm published an interesting article on M&A transactions in Egypt where data is the main company asset, on IFLR here. With the entry into force of the Egyptian Private Data Protection Law in 2020 (PDPL), which is based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, rights of Egyptian data subjects are upheld...
The Kenyan Office of Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) is increasing its control over businesses to respect mandatory registration pursuant to the Kenyan 2021 Data Protection Regulation which entered into force on 14 July this year. The ODPC is asking businesses like bars, restaurants, dispensaries, schools and betting companies to register with the data commissioner regardless...
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