The European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities.
Cyber drills are essential to test the resilience of our infrastructure, the European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities.
The simulation took place on Friday
In early 2019, Singapore’s data
privacy regulators proposed that the country’s data privacy law could use two
new updates—a data breach notification requirement and a right of data
portability for the country’s residents.
The proposed additions are
commonplace in several data privacy laws around the world, including, most
notably, the European Union Gene
For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an
aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new storm hit. The
country passed a law protecting healthcare-related information, and not much
else. It then passed a law protecting video rental information, and not much
else. It continued this way, repeatedly passing sector-specific la
Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to more easily pack up their user data and take it to a competing service—perhaps one that better respects their data privacy.
The new bill would also require certain t
Last week, the chief executives of more than 50 mid- and
large-sized companies urged Congress to pass a national data privacy law to
regulate how companies collect, use, and share Americans’ data.
Buried deep within the chief executives’ recommendations for such a law, presented as a policy framework for guidance, was a convenient proposal: Private indiv
Europe’s police agency Europol has been given enhanced cyber powers to track down terrorists and other criminals.The new governance rules were approved by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee on Thursday by a massive majority. MEPs claimed that the new powers come with strong data protection safeguards and democratic oversight.Further ReadingB
Have you ever Binged or Googled for your own name, address or phone number? It’s good to do it now and then, and the result may be shocking. You don’t have to be a celebrity to be mentioned on the net. Most of us occur on the net in quite many places, often a lot more than we imagine.
You can decide how much you reveal to the public in the profiles of your o