Data

Imperva CTO Kunal Anand posted updated information regarding the recent breach affecting Cloud WAF customers and admitted poor security controls led to the compromise.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252472293/Imperva-breach-update-puts-blame-on-exposed-AWS-API-keys

Under EU data protection law data subjects can ask search engines to de-reference, or delist, results relating to them in certain circumstances. When agreeing to such a request, however, search engines are not required to delist results from results displayed to all their users across the world, the EU's highest court has ruled.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/search-engine-duties-under-eu-data-protection-laws-clarified

BT's data governance director Horia Selegean outlines how the British telco used the looming GDPR regulation to boost its big data capabilities

Security teams have plenty of tools at their disposal to help their organizations achieve and maintain S3 bucket security. Learn about the threats and best practices to stay safe.

A growing number of data-driven initiatives, alongside heightened demand for security in governance, data management and compliance, has led to the rise of a more holistic approach – integrated risk management

https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Data-management-strategies-are-evolving-so-must-enterprises

The US, Australian and UK governments have asked Facebook to ditch plans to deploy end-to-end encryption across Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp

Home Secretary Priti Patel last night (Thursday 3 October) signed an historic agreement that will enable British law enforcement agencies to directly demand electronic data relating to terrorists, child sexual abusers and other serious criminals from US tech firms.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-sign-landmark-data-access-agreement

More than 200 million players of the popular mobile games Words with Friends and Draw Something had their login information stolen.

A new report suggests that most businesses are happy with their GDPR compliance posture, but the lack of skills in the space is leading to an increase in reported breaches

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3440686/skills-gap-to-blame-for-gdpr-compliance-woes.html

The finance industry prevented £820 million of unauthorised fraud in the first half of 2019.