The Star (in Malaysia) reports: In yet another data breach, more than 17,000 patients’ personal data have been exposed on the government-linked National Neurology Registry (NNeuR) website due to a scripting error, news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported. The portal reported that the data breach exposed among others NRIC numbers, phone numbers and addresses…
Category: Government Sector
White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
Sean Gallagher reports: An internal White House memo published today by Axios reveals that recent changes to the information operations and security organizations there have left the security team in tumult, with many members headed for the door. And the chief of the White House’s computer network defense branch—who wrote the memo after submitting his…
Man Gets 12 Years for Phishing Attack on LA County Court Computers
Fred Shuster reports: A 33-year-old man was sentenced Monday to a dozen years behind bars for hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and using it to send millions of malicious phishing emails designed to retrieve employees’ banking information. Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba was also ordered by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner to…
UK: Ex-Met detective loses court battle over payout for data breach
Diane Taylor reports: A former Metropolitan police detective who successfully sued the force for wrongly using its powers to investigate her has lost her eight-year court battle to hold the police to account. Andrea Brown said after a new ruling against her she might become homeless paying the police’s costs. “It can’t be right that the police…
Port Orange Suspends Online Payment System to Investigate Possible Data Breach Involving Click2Gov
Update: The original post below was published on October 19, 2019. On January 10, 2020, Port Orange said that they were first notified by CentralSquare on November 6. Yet they had reportedly suspended payment by October 19 to investigate. So why has it taken them so long to make this follow-up announcement? Spectrum News reports…
SC: Ransomware attack may be affecting 911, emergency dispatch in Jasper Co.
Kristen Rary reports: Earlier this week it was confirmed Jasper County had a cyber attack on their countywide systems, including email and emergency response systems. At that time, county officials said 911 and emergency dispatch services were not having any issues as a result of the cyberware attack. Now, that may not be the case….