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Avoiding, Managing And Responding To Cyber Incidents

Photo of Katie Stephen (UK)Photo of Marcus Evans (UK)Photo of Catherine Pluck (UK)By Katie Stephen (UK), Marcus Evans (UK), Rosie Nance and Catherine Pluck (UK) on Posted in Enforcement
Lessons From Recent Enforcement Background The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced on 13 October 2023 that it had fined Equifax Limited (Equifax), a credit reference agency and data, analytics and technology business, £11,164,400 for failing to manage and monitor the security of UK consumer data it had transferred to its parent company based in the … Continue reading

Legal Implications of DDoS Attacks and the Internet of Things (IoT)

By on Posted in Cybercrime
Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightSeveral significant distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks have taken place in the last few weeks, including a major event involving a domain name service provider (Dyn), which caused outages and slowness for many popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. This significant attack came on the heels of two major DDoS attacks against … Continue reading
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