From EJInsight: The Legislative Council has decided to take action on the massive data breach at Cathay Pacific Airways, which has affected the personal information of as many as 9.4 million customers. Amid calls for more stringent regulations on personal data protection, lawmaker Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of…
Month: October 2018
Civil servant who watched porn at work blamed for infecting a US government network with malware
Zack Whittaker reports: A U.S. government network was infected with malware thanks to one employee’s “extensive history” of watching porn on his work computer, investigators have found. The audit, carried out by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s inspector general, found that a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) network at the EROS Center, a satellite imaging…
Bank Islami Comes Under Biggest Cyber Attack of Pakistan’s History
Muhamed Bilal reports: Bank Islami Pakistan has come under the biggest cyber attack in the history of Pakistan. The incident came under the limelight when numerous customer of the bank complaint of an unusual activity – that their payments cards are being used in the different international countries. It is alleged that a group of…
Gabon official websites hacked by Anonymous
AFP reports: The Anonymous hackers collective on Sunday claimed it hacked into more than 70 Gabon government websites, as part of what it called a campaign against dictatorships. Government sites including the ministries of communications and the civil service were inaccessible on Sunday, as were the websites of at least 30 other institutions. The presidency…
Hackers Steal Data of Over 60,000 Tomorrowland Attendees
Matthew Meadow reports: While the US is worrying about hackers with the midterm elections growing closer, over in Brussels, another major breach was experienced by Tomorrowland. According to a report by Brussels Times, hackers were able to infiltrate the festival’s systems and obtain the data and personal information of 64,000 attendees. If it’s any consolation,…
Satori botnet author in jail again after breaking pretrial release conditions
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The alleged creator of the Satori IoT botnet is back in jail after breaking the terms of his pretrial conditional release, ZDNet has learned. The suspect is Kenneth Currin Schuchman, a 20-year-old man from Bend, Washington. He was first arrested this year in August and charged on two counts under the CFAA…