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Za: Information Regulator slaps Justice, Constitutional Development Department with R5m fine

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Dissent

IOL reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has been ordered to pay a R5 million fine following its failure to comply with an Enforcement Notice after contravening the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia). On May 9 the Information Regulator issued an Infringement Notice against the department for contravening various sections of…

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One of the scariest podcasts ever….

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Dissent

Remember last year when we were all reporting on how Conti had crippled Costa Rica with a ransomware attack and was suggesting the people overthrow the government to get one in place that would pay them? What if that was actually what Conti was trying to test on behalf of Russia or other powers —…

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You’ve patched right? ‘340K+ Fortinet firewalls’ wide open to critical security bug

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: More than 338,000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical bug Fortinet fixed last month that’s being exploited in the wild. This is according to infosec outfit Bishop Fox, which has developed an example exploit for achieving remote code execution via the hole. Successful exploitation of the…

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ARx Patient Solutions and ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy notify patients of a March, 2022 breach

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Dissent

ARx Patient Solutions and its affiliate pharmacy, ARx Patient Solutions Pharmacy, have issued a press release about a data breach affecting patient data. Their notice states, “It was determined that in March 2022, an employee email account was compromised and accessed by an unauthorized third party.” The types of patient information that may have been…

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Breach Victims Have Standing When Data Misused, 1st Circuit Says

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Dissent

Christopher Brown reports: A data-breach victim whose personal information was subject to actual misuse has standing to sue the entity that suffered the breach, a federal appeals court said. Plaintiff Alexsis Webb plausibly alleged an injury-in-fact sufficient to confer standing to sue Injured Workers Pharmacy Inc. based on her allegation that information stolen from the…

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I had been chatting with a blackhat. They had been working with a whitehat. We were both dealing with the same person.

Posted on June 30, 2023June 6, 2025 by Dissent

On April 18, DataBreaches reported that more details had emerged on the arrest of three men by Dutch police in January. The three were suspected of hacking and extorting victims in the Netherlands and elsewhere, obtaining and selling data online, and money laundering. A fourth person linked to the suspects known as “DataBox” had previously…

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