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Breach Case 6: Reusing and recycling Neil Sanson
29 November 2017 at 16:24

A recent data breach incident gave us an example of how trying to be careful in one respect can lead to unintended bad consequences in other ways.

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Breach Case 3: Catches win matches Neil Sanson
7 April 2017 at 10:39

A recent data breach provided an example of how it is sometimes possible to catch a breach as it is happening and avert potential harm.

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Breach Case 2: Don't bite when a phisher calls Neil Sanson
20 March 2017 at 14:42

A recent data breach involved a deliberate email phishing* attack on an industry organisation. The email purported to come from the chief executive and requested a copy of the membership list (names and email addresses).

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Breach Case 1: Name your documents clearly Neil Sanson
8 February 2017 at 14:01

It is so easy to send the wrong attachment with an email, especially if the documents you are selecting to attach are not clearly and distinctly named. We see this type of breach fairly regularly so we thought we’d highlight it in this post.

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Is it wrong to send personal emails to work addresses? Charles Mabbett
15 September 2014 at 09:55

Is it acceptable for a lawyer acting for a client to send a very private communication to a work email address of the other party?

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Outlook’s email trap for the unwary JLB
22 August 2014 at 09:41

Many an email has gone to the wrong recipient because a sender has unwittingly accepted an incorrect auto-complete entry. For this reason, like many others, we encouraged all our users to disable auto-complete.

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RIP the postal acceptance rule Katrine Evans
25 July 2014 at 12:55

For those of you who, like me, fondly remember their contract law lectures on the postal acceptance rule, it’s time to update our notes. The law has caught up with the digital age.

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