17/07/20 GDPR Community Round-Up

Here’s a round-up of interesting reading we found online today*;

• News, "Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam"

• News, "Germany’s Federal Supreme Court provisionally confirms Facebook’s use of personal data is alleged abuse of dominant market position"

• News, "Privacy Shield binned after EU court rules transatlantic data protection arrangements 'inadequate'"

• Update, "UK and allies expose Russian attacks on coronavirus vaccine development. Joint advisory details APT29’s ongoing campaign to target organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development".

• Update, "Advisory: APT29 targets COVID-19 vaccine development. Detection and mitigation advice for organisations involved in coronavirus vaccine development targeted with custom malware by APT29".

• News, "EU-US Privacy Shield Decision is invalid, but standard contractual clauses can in essence be used for EU-US data transfers: Court of Justice’s ruling in Facebook Ireland and Schrems"

• Breach update, "Security researcher tells of 'reaching out' to Wellington company after finding data breach".

• Breach Update, "Second IT contractor charged over LandMark White data breach"

• Information, "How to file for a piece of that $117.5 million Yahoo data-breach settlement"

• Opinion, "Enterprise Data Security: It’s Time to Flip the Established Approach"

• News, "Lock down your Twitter security settings now. There's no time like a high-profile Twitter hack to make sure you're doing this right".

• Breach Update, "Florida Orthopaedic Institute Data Breach Leads to Complete Identities Being Stolen".

• Opinion, "Cognitive dissonance and why tackling the people element of cyber security is so hard".

• Opinion, "Why we need to start considering safety as part of cyber security. Matthew Mackay, Cyber Risk Analyst at Whiteflare Consulting, explains why organisations should consider cyber security and cyber safety risks as part of an integrated approach".

• Insight, "Setting data retention timelines"

*These sites aren’t affiliated with GDPR Community and these aren’t an advertisement, they’re simply site’s we’ve thought the community might have an interest in reading.