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News 6 and 8 - VERSION 2.qxd 10-Feb-22 10:23 AM Page 3 news Jake Moore, ESET GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK PUNISHED OVER ONLINE TRACKING FAILURES France's data privacy watchdog has fined Google and Facebook a combined €210m (£176m) for hampering users' ability to stop the companies tracking their online activity. The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) revealed, as reported in The Guardian, that it had fined Google a record €150m for making it difficult for internet users to refuse cookies - small text files that build up a profile of a person's web activity for commercial purposes. It fined Facebook 60m euros for the same reason. The watchdog said the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites did not allow the easy refusal of cookies. Citing the example of Facebook, it commented: "Several clicks are required to refuse all cookies, as opposed to a single one to accept them." Says Jake Moore, global cyber security advisor at ESET: "Accepting cookies has become a normal part of visiting a website, but many people still have no real grasp of what they are agreeing to, much like the complicated Ts and Cs we often see in small print. "This acceptance can lead to the handing over of very personal and unique data, such as what is in your shopping cart or even your location, and most people simply just agree with them to speed up the entry to the website." UK CYBER SECURITY COUNCIL & SASIG FORM STRATEGIC NEW ALLIANCE The UK Cyber Security Council and the Security Simon Hepburn and Martin Smith Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG) have announced a strategic partnership. They will work together on key webinars and events designed to improve trust in the online environment and when it comes to education and knowledge-sharing. One of the forthcoming events where they will partner with SASIG is on its third Cybersecurity Skills Festival. Simon Hepburn, CEO of the UK Cyber Security Council, says: "Getting more people to consider entering the cyber security industry is crucial and we look forward to working with SASIG on this." Martin Smith MBE, chairman and founder of SASIG, comments: "Our Skills Festivals have already established themselves as a successful way of bringing together those looking for new talent and those wanting to enter our dynamic and exciting profession, but there is much more to be done." CLOUDFLARE EXPANDS ITS ZERO TRUST FIREWALL CAPABILITIES Cloudflare is expanding its Zero Trust firewall capabilities to help companies secure their entire corporate network across all of their branch offices, data centres and clouds. The company also announced Oahu, a new program to help customers migrate from legacy hardware to the Cloudflare. According to Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare: "CIOs know that the corporate network is changing fast, and we want to help make that transition easy, flexible and scalable. When working from everywhere became possible, workers migrated from legacy locations like Palo Alto to work wherever they wanted. "With our Oahu Program, we are making it easy for companies to leave legacy tech behind, in favour of an everywhere firewall delivered from the cloud." Matthew Prince, Cloudflare AVERAGE PRINT-RELATED BREACH COST HITS ALMOST £632,000 New research reveals that organisations are Louella Fernandes, struggling to keep up with the print security Quocirca demands of the hybrid workplace. The findings appear in Quocirca's 'Global Print Security Landscape Report 2022'. Commenting on the findings, Quocirca research director Louella Fernandes says: "Despite rapid digitisation over the past eighteen months, organisations continue to rely on printing. Now, however, printer estates have expanded to include home offices and employee-purchased devices, increasing the risk of accidental data loss and cyber-attacks. "Organisations are finding it harder to keep up with print security challenges and they are suffering costly breaches as a result," she adds. 8 computing security Jan/Feb 2022 @CSMagAndAwards www.computingsecurity.co.uk
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