Graham Cluley writes: The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to companies to better protect their cloud-based accounts after several recent successful attacks. According to an advisory published by CISA, an increasing number of attacks have succeeded as more employees have begun to work remotely with a variety…
Category: Business Sector
Ph: Privacy Commission summons operators of website that exposed car owners’ personal data
There’s an update to a data leak situation previously noted on this site. It’s always interesting to me to see how other countries handle privacy violations or data leaks. It looks like the NPC has the authority — and uses it — to order ISPs to block access to problematic web sites that violate privacy….
Hy-Vee agrees to settle the class action lawsuit over payment card data breach
In August, 2019, Hy-Vee announced that it was investigating a payment card breach affecting customers who had used some of their fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants. Three days later, Brian Krebs reported: On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked…
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
Zack Whittaker reports: A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app. Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Amazon for $1 billion, launched Neighbors in 2018 as a breakaway feature in its own standalone app. Neighbors is one…
Polish DPA fines Virgin Mobile Polska €460,000: Incidental safeguards review is not regular testing of technical measures
The President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) imposed a fine of PLN 1.9 million (EUR 460,000) on Virgin Mobile Polska for the lack of implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of the processed data. UODO stated that the company infringed the principles of data confidentiality and accountability specified in…
National Detergent Company in Oman Hit by Cyberattack
An Omani company has been exposed to a cyber attack which resulted in loss of some of its data. In a disclosure published by the Muscat Securities Market said: “The National Detergent company want to informs you of its exposure to an electronic attack on the company’s information technology network that caused the loss of…