Tomohiro Osaki reports: The man accused of hacking other people’s computers to make a series of violent threats in 2012 maintained his “utter innocence” as his trial opened Wednesday at the Tokyo District Court. Yusuke Katayama, a former employee of a Tokyo information technology company, was arrested in February 2013 on suspicion of remotely manipulating…
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UK: Councillor rapped for speaking to newspapers about data breach
Remember when documents with sensitive information on Victoria Climbié were found in abandoned council offices? Ruth McKee reports: A councillor who blew the whistle on confidential data found lying in the middle of the former Southgate Town Hall has been punished for revealing the extent of the security breach. Henry Lamprecht, ward councillor for Southgate Green…
UK: Police censured for data breaches
Hundreds of police staff, including high-ranking officers, have been censured for breaching data protection laws – from snooping on their children and ex-wives, to social media gaffes. And in one case, a Pc got into hot water after wrongly telling family members that a loved one had died. Others breached data protection regulations to access…
NI Department of Justice fined for data breach
BBC reports: Northern Ireland’s Department of Justice has been fined £185,000 for auctioning off a filing cabinet that contained personal information about victims of a terrorist attack. The locked cabinet was one of 59 sold off by the Compensation Agency in 2012. When the buyer forced it open, they found it contained documents about injuries…
Hundreds of Canadian credit cards hacked by infected terminals, firm warns
Tu Thanh Ha reports: A new strain of computer malware infecting payment card terminals in restaurant and gas station has compromised nearly 700 credit cards in Canada, a computer security firm says. The viral code, JackPOS, infects point-of-sales terminals, a security breach similar to other highly publicized recent cases that struck victims such as the…
PChome apologizes over privacy breach
CNA reports: Web portal PChome Online Inc. apologized Monday for an unintentional release of its members’ private photo albums via smartphones. The company said it fixed the glitch immediately after it was informed of the problem the previous day. “Now our services, especially via smartphones, are functioning normally,” it said in a text message to…