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The act of checking-in to a venue has been widely accepted as the price we must pay to socialise and return to some form of normality. But while the act of entering data is small, the potential ramifications of this process are not.
Cyber education alone will not stop Australia s cyber attacks Cyber education alone will not stop Australia s cyber attacks
Unisys Gergana Winzer calls on wider cyber security industry to come together in helping Australia s weakest links fend off breaches
Gergana Winzer (Unisys) Credit: Gergana Winzer
Last month, the Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk publicly bemoaned the “human factor” for causing a spike in data breaches.
However, according to one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading cyber security players, blaming employees working from home falls short of addressing the whole story.
Speaking to
ARN, Gergana Winzer, industry director cyber security for Unisys Asia Pacific, said the region’s weakest links are small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – which are in turn the most underserved by both governments and the cyber industry as a whole.
Teleworking and the security risks of freemium messaging apps Adam Such, President and Chief Operating Officer, Communication Security Group
Teleworking and the security risks of freemium messaging apps
COVID-19 is leading an ever-increasing proportion of the workforce to telecommute from home, and many of those employees are being pushed towards using freemium messaging apps for work related communications. With articles such as “A guide to use WhatsApp while working from home” in The Economic Times, and limited enterprise approved and managed alternatives, it’s doubtful this will change in the short-term. However, this trend should raise red flags for CTOs and IT departments around the world.
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Human factor dominates latest data breach
statistics
Data breaches attributed to human error continue to
increase according to the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner s latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report.
Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner
Angelene Falk said 38 per cent of all data breaches notified during
the period were attributed to human error (28 January 2021).
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dominance of tech titans. The ACCC also proposed limiting the
Swedish police fined for unlawful use of facial-recognition app
Sweden’s data watchdog has found that Swedish police failed to conduct the data protection checks required by law before using controversial facial-recognition tool
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Sweden’s data protection authority IMY has fined the Swedish Police Authority €250,000 for unlawfully using controversial facial-recognition technology company Clearview AI to identify individuals in breach of the country’s Criminal Data Act.
Following reports in local media, an investigation by the IMY found that between the autumn of 2019 and 3 March 2020, Clearview AI’s app had been used by Swedish police on a number of occasions, and that several employees had used the facial-recognition tool without prior authorisation.