Alastair Tibbitt reports: Computer systems at the City of Edinburgh Council have been subject to a malicious cyber attack that could have given hackers access to personal information about thousands of local residents. Letters of apology have been sent to 8745 people who have made use of council debt advice services. Users of other council…
Month: December 2011
Hacks of Chinese gaming sites may have affected 38,000,000
C. Custer writes: Yesterday, the Chinese internet was shaken by the news that IT portal and community CDSN has been hacked and data for its more than six million users had been stolen, including usernames and passwords. Today, reports have it that CDSN wasn’t the only site affected. Duowan, a games site, was hacked and…
2011 is the Year of the Hacktivist, Verizon Report Suggests
Robert McMillan reports: Postal workers, department store clerks and elves aren’t the only ones working like crazy this holiday season. For Bryan Sartin, it’s the busiest time of year. Sartin is a director of investigative response with Verizon Business. He’s the guy you call when you’ve been hacked and he usually doesn’t get much of…
Dutch govt consults on data breach reporting obligation
The Dutch ministry of security and justice has put together a bill on the obligation to report data breaches. The Data Protection Act (WbP) is to be adjusted and the text open to consultation up to 29 February. The WbP will be extended with a generally worded obligation to report loss or theft of data…
VT: ‘Good News Garage’ Warns Of Security Breach (updated)
This is one of those good news, bad news stories, but it’s may be more like bad news, good news in this case: The charity long known for turning donated cars into life-changing transportation for the needy is sending out thousands of letters this week. The news inside isn’t ‘good’ at all. The notices are…
Plans to migrate LAPD to Google’s cloud apps dropped
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google’s hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements. As a result, close to 13,000 law-enforcement employees will remain indefinitely on the LAPD’s existing…