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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), an agency of the European Union, has published a report on the storage of personal data by social networks in order to provide a personalised...
Rise in requests for content removal from Google
As part of it bi-annual transparency report, Google has revealed that, for the period of January to June of this year, there has been a 71% increase in requests for content to be removed from its services,...
The impact of security given by the principal debtor on a guarantor
The question in this case was whether the existence of the security given by the principal debtor, St George’s Property Services (London) Limited (SGPS) affected the creditor's, Davenham Trust Limited...
Now LinkedIn the latest high profile site accused of having security flaws for user details
LinkedIn has security flaws that enable hackers to access users’ profiles without needing passwords, Rishi Narang, a security consultant, has claimed. Narang said that the vulnerability results from...
UK tops the table for spam
The UK ranks above other Western European countries for the circulation of spam (junk email), according to a survey produced by Trend Micro, an Internet security business. Nearly 10% of spam emails from...
UK firms don’t do enough to protect security of corporate data
UK businesses do not do enough to protect the security of their corporate data. Consequently, they are falling behind their counterparts in other countries. These are the findings of research by the consultancy...
Can trustees’ right to be indemnified out of trust assets for all expenses reasonably and properly incurred and to have a lien over trust assets rank in priority to a bank’s security?
Although the trustees, in this case, did not assert any general principle that a trustees’ lien for their own expenses should prevail over the bank’s registered rights as mortgagee, they asserted...