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Sanctions Guidance is not a score sheet – Court of Appeal findings from GMC v Gilbert & PSA
Jessica Etherington
24 May 2017
Cyber-security, ransomware and the GDPR
One in five NHS Trusts were hit by a cyber-attack known as “Wannacry” on 12 May 2017 leading to PCs and data being locked up and held for ransom. The malicious ransomware known as WanaCrypt0r has hit companies and other organisations, from Russia to Australia, and Europol estimated there had been 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries. It was alleged that NHS networks were left vulnerable because they were using outdated Windows XP software, which is no longer supported by Microsoft, and therefore security upgrades had not been installed. The National Cyber Security Centre warned that more cases of the ransomware were expected to come to light beyond the NHS and “possibly at a significant scale”.
11 May 2017
Driverless Cars: is the law still playing catch-up?
We published a blog last year about Uber’s pilot and driverless cars and, at that point, it seemed straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, but driverless cars are now well and truly amongst us, and it seems that everyone is jumping on the band wagon.
3 April 2017
SaaS providers: are you ready for the new data protection regime?
In just over a year (25 May 2018), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Regulation”) will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA”) and come into force in the UK. This will be just under a year before Brexit. In any event, the Regulation would still apply to all companies who intend to do business with the EU and handle the personal information of European citizens.
22 September 2014
Cybercrime - what should your business do to protect itself?
Mornings for some consist of checking Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, work and personal email accounts before leaving the house. Throughout the day a large number of us will go on to check our bank balance, book a restaurant, do our food shopping, deal with clients, book our next holiday or train home, all online. But, do we really know how secure our data is and who has access to it?
27 February 2014
Data Protection Revisited – Hacking, Leaking and Cloud Concerns in 2014
Hardly a day goes by without a new story about another cyber-attack, leaked or hacked passwords or log-ins.