The General Data Protection Regulation is a major step in digital privacy and is the result of a long process settled in European values. It aims at strengthening laws on data protection, giving EU citizens control over their personal data. The Regulation came into effect on the 25th of May 2018 as you will have noticed …
This Is Why Your To-Do List Is Going Nowhere Scott Friesen wrote this great piece on another way to organise your to do list if you find your current method is not working for you. Have you browsed the latest productivity tools in the app store lately? There is certainly no shortage of to-do list …
After 18 months of cascading scandals and under mounting pressure to address data privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress for the first time this week. On Tuesday, the Facebook CEO will appear before a joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees. The next day, he’ll face …
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Jigsaw, is an incubator that’s part of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. It has launched Outline, an open-source virtual private network (VPN) that you can host on your own server at no charge. As an initiative from the human-rights-focused Jigsaw, Outline is being billed as a tool to help journalists securely connect to their newsdesks, sources, …
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Chris Keller has a message for small businesses when it comes to cyberthreats: If you think you are too small to be targeted, that your business has little of value to hackers, think again. “Cyberthreats are not a matter of if,” he said. “They are a matter of when.” Keller is co-founder of Prospect-based Advanced …
How to recognise and avoid scammers’ tactics, and steps you can take to check for scams. Understanding how scams work is the best way to protect yourself. Take this quiz to test your knowledge about how to recognise and deal with scams. Take the quiz.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an extra level of security when you log in. Most people log on to an online account by applying a username-password combination. Using 2FA adds a second layer of identity verification to strengthen your login protection. Learn how it works and how to easily set it up free for your accounts …
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The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents In June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called “Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System”. In the way of …
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One of our cloud providers, OneNet, speaks about how they protect our clients against threats and ransomware. With Ransomware attacks in 2017 reaching an all-time high, there is no better time to ensure your systems are protected adequately so you don’t lose your information (or money). On August 31, 2017 by OneNet. If 2017 is to …
Google is making it easier for you to find out what it knows about you. In a blog post on Friday Google said it has redesigned its privacy and security dashboard “from the ground up” to better integrate it into other privacy controls and to make it more touchscreen-friendly. The main dashboard was created in 2009 and …
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