Many employees need to from home. Data protection and data privacy should not be neglected. Responsibilities for employees to work from home safely Make sure nobody else sees the personal data you use. Don’t leave prints on the desk and don’t talk sensitive details on the phone while family or neighbours are listening. Avoid printing…. […]
Corona Virus – Cybercriminals take advantage of people’s fear
The Corona virus causes fear in many. Now bad guys use this fear to distribute new malware. We found several malware campaigns in the wild, trying to lure you into activating a malware to steal your data. All kinds of tricks are used to use the corona fear to convince you to activate malware. One… […]
What damage is caused by a cyber attack?
If your network is infected, in most cases the computer and server must be reinstalled. If the malicious software has deleted or encrypted data, hopefully the data can be restored via a backup. The success rate depends on how and at what intervals the data has been backed up and how long the malicious software… […]
German GDPR fines catch up
allows fines of up to 20 Million Euro or 4% of the yearly turnover. Germany is still relatively moderate with imposing GDPR fines. (takeaway.com just got a € 195K penalty). In Poland, the online Shop morele.com just received a 644 K EUR fine.However, the German Data Protection Authorities just agreed on a ‘price list’ for… […]
Schindler IT-Solutions and the Raiffeisen bank work together for Cybersecurity and Quality
The recent event “Wirtschaft aktuell” (Economy News) was entirely devoted to the topic of Cybersecurity, with information about dangers and how to avoid them. Schindler IT-Solutions showcased their Cybersecurity-Solutions, but the GDPR was also central aspect of this evening. Just like the motto: “How long can your company survive without data?”. The cost of data… […]
GDPR fines in Germany
The imposition of GDPR fines is a right of every state in Germany. Thus, Germany differs from most EU member states, where a federal agency supervise data protection. Thus, there is an independent data protection authority in each German state. There are also the Federal Data Protection Supervisor and two legally independent authorities for the… […]
Europe is ahead – USA now wants to take the lead in data protection
51 US companies are calling for a uniform data protection law at the federal level. This emerges from the published letter of the 51 corporations. In addition to network operators, financial institutions and car manufacturers, this letter has also been signed by companies such as Amazon.com, Dell, IBM, Motorola, Qualcomm, Salesforce and SAP. The authors… […]
GDPR and ISO certification
The GDPR explicitly provides the possibility of certification in . Now, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published ISO 27701, a standard for demonstrating compliance with data protection regulations. With ISO 27701, the ISO 27001 policy has now been extended to include privacy considerations. What’s new? ISO now cares for information security and privacy… […]
Facebook – 419 million phone numbers available on the net
A huge database with more than 419 million telephone numbers of Facebook users, linked to the Facebook ID, was available unencrypted on the internet. The Facebook ID can be used to find the Facebook Username. In some cases, the name, gender and nationality of each user were also recorded. This has been revealed by security… […]