It seemed to have the makings of a big news story almost two months ago when The Japan Times reported and the Hacker News spread the word that Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police had arrested five mobile app developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications that downloaded the users’ contacts. But now it appears that the case…
Category: Non-U.S.
Cn: Leaks prompt postal overhaul
Xu Wei reports: China’s postal authorities have ordered an overhaul of the express delivery sector amid growing concerns over personal information being leaked and traded by workers. The State Post Bureau said in a recent statement that delivery companies should ensure user information is well protected throughout their procedures, and that authorities will be conducting spot checks on firms, focusing specifically on personal information security.
AU: Hackers’ extortion bid on schools
I don’t recall ever seeing an media report on an extortion/ransom attempt on a school, but here’s a case out of Australia, where they also seem to have more media reports of ransomware in the healthcare and small business sectors than we do. As reported by the Herald Sun: Schools have emerged as a new…
IE: Investigation into possible data breach at 02
Irish mobile phone carrier O2 may have had a breach involving customer data. Or not. It seems they’re not really sure what was on a missing backup tape. And I’m not sure I understand why they first told this summer that a tape went missing in September 2011. And of course I’m not sure I…
AU: Macquarie University reportedly hacked
Macquarie University appears to have been hacked. Read the coverage on ZDNet and see a mirror of the defacement and the message.
Disaster avoided by encryption? Yay….
I’m so used to reading news stories about thefts where data were not encrypted that my jaw still occasionally drops when it turns out the data were encrypted. Here’s a story like that from Lancashire in the U.K.: […] Eddie Sutton, Lancashire County Council’s assistant chief executive, said: “I can confirm that a number of…