Karl Finders reports: A crackdown on businesses which will make it mandatory to report security breaches will have little impact on UK banks, according to the British Bankers Association (BBA). Speaking at the BBA’s Data Protection and Privacy Conference, Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission, said new rules will be implemented in Europe forcing businesses to…
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Canada official: Staples resold hard drives with customer data
Galen Moore reports: …. According to Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, the breaches affected laptop computers and flash drives, and compromised sensitive information including Social Insurance Numbers, and health card and passport numbers; academic transcripts; banking information and tax records. An audit conducted by Stoddard’s office examined 149 data storage devices marked for resale, and…
UK: Hacking suspect arrested
From the Metropolitan Police Dept. web site: Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested a 19-year-old man in a pre-planned intelligence-led operation. The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to…
Executive Learns From Hack
Evan Ramstad reports about the lessons learned by one executive after the Hyundai Capital Services hack: … His biggest mistake, he says, was that he used to treat the information-technology department as simply one of many units that helped the company get its main job done. Today he treats it as central to everything the company…
Lulzsec 2011 census released – UPDATED – or not!
In a message that undoubtedly should send shudders down the spines of those involved in the security of UK census data, the hacking collective known as LulzSec posted a message on Pastebin yesterday: Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the…
Hackers claim 177K e-mails from Sony Pictures France
Erica Ogg reports: Sony’s turn as the whipping boy for Internet hackers continued over the weekend. Two hackers posted a list of e-mails they say they took from the Sony Pictures France Web site. The two hackers who claim responsibility are a Lebanese student who goes by the handle Idahc, and a French friend of his…