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If You Don’t Know What GDPR Stands For, It’s Time to Find Out . . . .

By Maria Danaher on Posted in Cyber Security, Data Privacy
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective on May 25, 2018. Companies have been working to understand the significance of those new rules, and to determine their effect on US companies. The purpose of the GDPR is to harmonize certain data privacy laws within the European Union (including the UK, for now). … Continue Reading

Internet scammers are trolling for employee data . . . and HR inadvertently may be providing it.

By Maria Danaher on Posted in Cyber Security
Every January 31, employers who are scrambling to meet the deadline for mailing W-2 forms to their employees have discovered that scammers are trolling for that very information. This year, a new iteration of an old W-2 phishing scam has surfaced. In the 2017 version, scammers posing as a company’s CEO or other high-level executive … Continue Reading
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