Recent research suggests that emailing data to the wrong recipient is top of the list of causes of data breaches, outweighing the next 4 reasons combined. And yet we regularly hear of organisations who still send data files by email, and often unencrypted! The ICO has a useful article on this (it is due to […]
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How not to choose a password
BBC Tech has a report that surprised us, where a data breach occurred when criminals accessed the data of thousands of children which was secured with the password ‘Password1’. It seems to have been a test system, but that is no excuse. The BBC Tech article is at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6r7y03e9m3ro. The ICO has published a blog […]
Full analysis of the PHP situation
Many of you will be aware of Steve Gibson’s Security Now! podcast. In this week’s show, Steve took a deep dive into the issues with PHP and the wider concerns. If you are interested, his show notes are available to download as a PDF from https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1102-notes.pdf.
Are you using Charitable Purposes Soft Opt-In?
If you are relying on Charitable Purposes Soft Opt-In for any use cases (scenarios) and would be happy for me to mention your organisation in conversations, please get in touch to tell me a little more. It’s always good to have relevant stories of how charities we know, are benefiting from changes like this.
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DPPC 2026 resources
If you were unable to attend the Data Protection Practitioners Conference 2026 recently, the ICO has made some resources, including slides, available for free download. You can find out more at https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/data-protection-practitioners-conference-2026/.