Kathleen Hall reports: Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted laptops, according to an audit report. The news follows the theft of…
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NG: SSS official laments security breach
Emmanuel Okubenji reports: A senior intelligence official of [Nigeria’s] State Security service (SSS) has that the lives of officers and those of their families have been put at risk. Following the leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of the SSS on the Internet, the official added that two SSS…
Follow-up: Still no word on New Haven city laptop stolen in May
Jordan Fenster reports that a computer stolen in May has not been recovered: Three months after a computer containing the personal information of thousands of city residents was stolen from a public library, the information has not been recovered and no arrests have been made. On May 18, a laptop used by an employee for…
NH: State prison officials investigating after prisoners gain access to another server on the network
Maddie Hanna reports: Inmates at the state prison in Concord gained unauthorized access to a Department of Corrections computer network, but prison officials have not determined whether they viewed, stole or changed any records. The security breach, the first of its kind at the prison, involved computers used by about 20 inmates in the prison’s…
UK: Police Security Tightened After Assange Supporter ‘Steals’ Data
Tom Brewster reports: Police security measures have been increased, after a hacker claimed to have stolen logins and passwords from two forces’ websites, apparently as part of the campaign on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Both Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire police forces confirmed to TechWeekEurope that they were investigating the claims, made by a hacker purportedly protesting for…
50 busted in Shanghai for stealing and selling personal info (updated)
Zha Minjie reports: Shanghai police said today that they have bust a criminal ring that sold personal information to businesses for illegal gains. Police detained 50 suspects and found nearly 200 million pieces of personal information, such as cellphone numbers and home addresses, in their computers. One suspect surnamed Zhang took advantage of his assignment…