A financial penalty of $14,000 was imposed on Nature Society (Singapore) for breaches of the PDPA. First, the organisation failed to put in place reasonable measures to protect personal data on its website database. Second, it did not appoint a data protection officer. Lastly, it did not have written policies and practices necessary to comply…
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Microsoft seizes control of websites used by China-backed hackers
Carly Page reports: Microsoft has seized control of a number of websites that were being used by a Chinese government-backed hacking group to target organizations in 29 countries, including the U.S. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCI) said on Monday that a federal court in Virginia had granted an order allowing the company to take control of the websites…
Russian Man Sentenced for Providing ‘Bulletproof Hosting’ for Cybercriminals
A Russian man was sentenced today for providing “bulletproof hosting” services, which were used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. On Dec. 1, Chief Judge Denise Page Hood of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced Aleksandr Grichishkin,…
SUNY Geneseo student to face hacker in court two years after explicit photos were leaked
Carla Rogner reports: Natalie Claus is looking forward to graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December, but first she is focusing on another date on her calendar. On Wednesday, Claus will face a stranger in court, David Mondore, who hacked her snapchat account in December 2019 and sent an explicit photo saved in her private folder to…
UK: Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen
John Leonard reports: The Labour Party has suffered a ‘cyber incident’ with personal details of members stolen from an unnamed third-party company that handles its membership data. In a statement the party says it was informed of the incident on October 29th and that “a significant quantity of Party data” had been rendered inaccessible. Labour does not give…
Hacker who posted ‘pwned’ on MIAA website says they hoped to help expose security flaws
Tom Westerholm reports: A hacker who goes by the screen names “netsaosa” and “g0retrance” got into the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) website on Monday and posted “pwned,” briefly derailing the release of the MIAA’s official statewide brackets for state tournament games. Reporters noted the delay before MassLive.com’s Meredith Perri realized the site was compromised. A pop-up in…