Safe working from home not under control? Then follow the following 8 recommendations to work from home safely: Set up two-factor authentication for administrators. Set up two-factor authentication for regular users. Avoid using administration rights with normal users. Record what users do within your environment. Set ‘alerts’ to receive notifications about strange activities. Know the […]
Microsoft has been sued by Frank Russo, Koonan Litigation Consulting and Sumner Davenport & Associates.They say this is on behalf of all Office 365 users as they allegedly share Office 365 business users’ user data with Facebook. This information would have been shared with Facebook’s app developers, as well as Microsoft’s partners and suppliers. If […]
The European Court of Justice has declared the Privacy Shield Agreement between the EU and the United States invalid. Privacy Shield regulates the exchange of personal data between companies in the European Union and the US. According to the Court, personal data of EU citizens stored in the United States is insufficiently protected. The Court […]
The Consumers’ Association and the Data Privacy Foundation “Data Privacy Stichting (DPS)”. Have joined forces to force Facebook to pay compensation via a subpoena. The Consumers’ Association calls on consumers to join the campaign. Facebook is accused of collecting private data from its users and their Facebook friends for years and making this data accessible […]
The Multi-year Plan for Improving Central Government Information Management prescribes that all government organizations must implement a method of e-mail archiving by 2021, whereby this applies in In principle, all e-mail from officials is kept for a period of ten years. After that period, the e-mails are either destroyed or transferred to the National Archives. […]
In 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority placed more focus on enforcing the privacy law, which can be seen in the 2019 annual overview. A number of the milestones listed here are: 110 researches, compared to 20 in 2018; 4 fines in total over 2.5 million euros; 28,000 privacy complaints, involving 2,000 interventions; 94% of […]
The Citrix leak, which occurred in late December 2019 and led to a major crisis in organizations, is still being actively exploited. While attention for the vulnerability has faded, criminal hackers and espionage groups appear to have access to the internal network at at least 25 Dutch organizations and 2000 international organizations, according to Fox-IT. […]
Research shows that tens of thousands of virtual office workplaces can be abused remotely by hackers directly via the internet. This often still happens most often via a Remote Desktop or Remote Desktop connection from Windows. Many organizations are unaware of this, so it is a matter of patience before an unwanted person or ransomware […]
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Tips from the Digital Trust Center to avoid vulnerabilities:– run the security updates;– check the internal logging for traces of abuse;– analysis of the logging of the VPN environment;– delete all existing VPN accounts and recreate usernames with strong passwords;– consider implementing two-factor authentication for users. Read more about this here: https://www.digitaltrustcenter.nl/nieuws/wees- alert-for-vpn vulnerabilities