Data

Controversial company that scraped data from the public internet to build its facial recognition algorithm faces a joint UK-Australian investigation into its practices

The US’s California Consumer Privacy Act came into force in January this year, but enforcement against technology companies did not begin until this month

At least 15 billion credentials are currently circulating on various hacker forums, giving cybercriminals fodder for account takeover attacks and identity renting services.

A database of 384,319 BMW car owners in the U.K. is being offered for sale on an underground forum by the KelvinSecurity Team hacking group, according to KELA, a darknet threat intelligence firm, based in Tel Aviv.

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/bmw-customer-database-for-sale-on-dark-web/

Researchers shows most "flight-risk" employees planning to leave an organization tend to start stealing data two to eight weeks before they go.

 https://www.darkreading.com/risk/60--of-insider-threats-involve-employees-planning-to-leave/d/d-id/1337876

Continuous security monitoring is the key for compliance with the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) standard, as well as GDPR. Failing to comply with one will mean failing to comply with both.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2058403-continuous-monitoring-the-key-to-compliance-with-new-security-standard#.XwLi0phFZIo.twitter

Inappropriate data sharing continues to be a problem for companies, according to a survey from data discovery and auditing software vendor Netwrix. Although most companies have designated secure storage areas for their data, many find it leaking into insecure areas, its research found.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/unauthorized-data-sharing-puts/#.Xv9bMJBGFKQ.twitter

A data breach broker is selling databases containing user records for 14 different companies he claimed were breached by hackers in 2020.

V Shred defended the public status of its open bucket and only partially solved the problem.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/v-shred-data-leak-exposes-pii-sensitive-photos-of-fitness-customers-and-trainers/

Businesses can expect to see a continued push towards a more global approach to data protection