Laura Dobberstein reports: Singapore’s governmental digital services arm, GovTech, has launched a “rewards programme” to further crowdsource tests of the nation’s cybersecurity. The Vulnerability Rewards Programme (VRP) joins the Government Bug Bounty Programme (GBBP) and the Vulnerability Disclosure Programme (VDP), all of which work alongside the government’s own security checks. Read more on The Register.
Category: Non-U.S.
Switzerland: Citizen and municipality data published on Darknet
MRT reports: At the end of May, the municipal administration of the tranquil town of Rolle in French-speaking Switzerland was the victim of a cyber attack. This became known to the public recently through research on the news portal watson.ch. The result of the attack: The data of all residents and other documents have been…
Indian companies go scot-free despite breach of customer data
Vishal Raghavan has an opinion piece in The Leaflet about the failure of Indian firms to notify customers of breaches or to be held accountable and fined monetarily by regulators. He begins by reviewing a number of high-profile breaches reported in the last year or so, and the notes that all of the companies didn’t…
Indonesia probes suspected data breach on COVID-19 app
Reuters reports: Indonesia is investigating a suspected security flaw in a COVID-19 test-and-trace app that left exposed personal information and the health status of 1.3 million people, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. Researchers from encryption provider (sic) vpnMentor said personal information in the Indonesia Health Alert Card (eHAC) app, often required to be used…
Bangkok Air confirms passenger PII leak after ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Bangkok Airways, the second oldest and the third biggest airline company in Thailand, has admitted last week that hackers stole passenger information during a security breach following a ransomware attack. The airline confirmed the breach in a press release last Thursday, a day after a ransomware gang known as LockBit posted a message…
Hackers Steal Data from Neuchâtel Cantonal Bank
FInews reports: There was a cyber attack on the Neuchâtel Cantonal Bank (BCN) at the beginning of August, spokeswoman Marie-Laure Chapatte, told the «AWP» news agency (in German), resulting in the potential theft of around 1,500 email addresses. Neither the banking infrastructure – such as the online banking platform – nor other sensitive systems were affected by the…