James Coker reports: Leading London hospitals have been forced to cancel operations and divert emergency patients following a cyber-attack on a critical supplier. The incident has affected Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and primary care services in South East London, according to a statement from NHS England on June 4….
Author: Dissent
Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Malaysia’s government to amend Personal Data Protection Act to require notification of data breaches
The Sun reports: The government is planning to amend the Personal Data Protection Act of 2010 to include breach notification requirements that compel companies to inform authorities when a data breach happens in commercial transactions, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo. Gobind said his ministry proposes to table the amendment at the next sitting of…
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…
Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
The Hacker News reports: Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,” the company said in a joint statement along with CrowdStrike and…
Davis County high school students are hacking the hackers behind phishing schemes
Don Brinkerhoff reports: A group of high school juniors in Davis County are hacking the hackers to protect phishing victims. “All my friends and peers around me got hacked,” said Charles Mortensen a Davis County student. Mortensen said in one case, a friend who’s in foster care had her Instagram account hacked. That was the…