Jacob Segun Olatunji reports: The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has urged the need to curb the menace of data breaches in the country. He made the call when the National Commissioner of Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Dr Vincent Olatunji, led some staff of the Bureau on a visit to…
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Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Argentina: More than 14,000 Reports Last Year Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecution Unit registered 14,583 reports of cases associated with cybercrime, a 465% increase over the previous year. The #DatosEnFuga project attempts to improve security and data protection. It is an initiative of the organizations Democracia en Red, Fundación Vía Libre…
‘I think Indonesia’s cybersecurity is run by 14-year olds’: Hackers
In July, DataBreaches published a piece highlighting the increasing number of breaches and leaks affecting Indonesians showing up on marketplaces where personal data is shared or sold. “Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces” included several recent examples found on the popular forum, Breached.to (Breach Forums). Now a new…
Norwegian parliament fined
From the Norwegian Data Protection Authority: The Norwegian parliament – the Storting – had a data breach in late 2020. In January, the Data Protection Authority gave notice of a NOK 2 million fine for inadequate security. We have now considered the Storting’s comments and decided to maintain the fine. Norwegian parliament fined “Our conclusion…
HC3 Threat Profile: Evil Corp
The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
Insurers must rethink handling of cyber attacks on states
There have been a number of lawsuits addressing the issue of whether some cyberattacks should be excluded from cyberinsurance coverage as “acts of war.” Josephine Wolff, author of Cybersecurity Policy, writes: The invasion of Ukraine earlier this year drew considerable global attention to the possibility that Russia might combine its physical attacks on the country…