Speaking last week at the Institute of Directors; Minister for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, announced a new push on the Cyber Essentials programme to encourage all UK businesses to adopt the scheme. Measure announced include: Updating the Cyber Essentials requirements, to make the scheme easier to use; A marketing campaign to raise awareness and drive […]
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Two weeks ago the ICO announced that it had fined a senior barrister £1000 for failing to keep clients’ sensitive personal information secure. The ICO explained that the barrister had kept sensitive information on 250 clients on a home computer without using any encryption. Then, during an update of software on the computer, files were
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced yesterday that it had fined a private health company, HCA International Ltd, £200 000 for failing to keep fertility patients’ personal information secure. Back in April 2015, a patient found that transcripts of interviews with Lister Hospital IVF patients could be freely accessed by searching online. A subsequent ICO investigation
Whilst a very useful resource, the Electrical Safety First website is not normally that entertaining. Typically there is a list of battery chargers that pose a fire risk and similar items, but today is different as a recall has just been announced of Anne Summers “Black Power Wands”. Not only that but the reason for
The severe disruption to London Ambulance Service’s IT systems on New Year’s Eve has been widely reported in the media, although little is known at this stage about the root cause. Hopefully, in due course, any useful lessons identified will be shared throughout the NHS to minimise the chance of a recurrence. In the mean
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The announcement yesterday that Merlin Entertainments had been fined £5m for the crash at Alton Towers last year in which 16 people were injured came as little surprise. What has been startling though is Merlin’s dramatic fall from grace over the last 12 months. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the operator was being
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We blogged last month about the IT outage at Delta Airlines which led to the suspension of flights across the US, Japan and Europe. Although the actual IT outage only lasted for 5 hours, disruption to flights persisted for several days and, in a briefing to investors on Wednesday, Delta estimated the cost of the
On Friday, the UK software firm Sage Group notified about 200 of its UK customers that sensitive information, including their employee bank account details and salary information, may have been affected by a data breach; the firm has also now reported the breach to the City of London Police. More details about the causes of
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