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Ticketmaster Fine – ICO may hold you to PCI-DSS…and most likely Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 too!
On an Ominous Friday the 13th, the UK Data Protection Regulator, the ICO, fined Ticketmaster UK Ltd £1.25million for a data protection breach that occurred over 9 weeks in 2018. In an interesting twist, some of the breach occurred pre-GDPR and some occurred post-GDPR. The 7-figure fine reflects the part of the breach that occurredRead More -
The Nightmare [Cyber Attack] before Christmas
We're now in the period between Halloween and Christmas. The Christmas music is now in the supermarkets (as they're the only things open at the moment) and people are looking towards cobbling together some semblance of a family get-together subject to the local Coronavirus restrictions. Some people have already put up their decorations whilst othersRead More -
Cascading Risk – What can we learn from the economic collapse of Angkor Wat
Now I don't know about you but, after months of Covid restrictions, there is now little left to watch. Having whistled my way through the entire MCU and the Star Wars nonet during lockdown I found myself flicking through the documentaries looking for something new to watch to decompress after a long day. I've avoidedRead More -
UK Test and Trace – How to avoid failing at risk management
The UK Test and Trace system has, again, come under fire for IT Glitches. The latest "glitch" is the manifestation of an obvious data quality risk. The test and trace system is overriding address information provided by student end users with data held in a central source. This issue has occurred because some bright sparkRead More -
Schrems II – Putting a Privacy Shield cat amongst the Data Protection Pigeons!
This is general legal information, nothing in this article should be considered advice. The Court of Justice for the European Union has just this week published its decision on Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (C-311/18) or, as many in the data protection world will better know it as, Schrems II. TheRead More -
Risk Management – It’s a bit like a hungry baby!
First things first - I am no parenting expert! Up until very recently, I thought that when a baby cries, they need one of four things…cuddles, feeding, nappy change or medical attention. Now it is still true that when a baby cries they most likely need one [or more] of those things. It is alsoRead More
