More coverage of the Nick Webber/GhostMarket.net case, mentioned previously on this site. Webber reportedly admitted in court today to masterminding the sale of 65,000 bank details. … Webber, who is the son of former Guernsey politician Tony Webber, was caught with details of 100,000 credit cards on his laptop – representing a potential loss to…
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AU: Police hacker avoids jail
Nicole Cox reports: A disgruntled computer hacker who attempted to bring down the entire WA Police computer system by flooding the Police Commissioner’s inbox with thousands of emails has walked free from court with a suspended sentence. On Friday, the Perth District Court heard that Adam William Bogers, 25, mounted the bizarre virtual attack in…
Ca: Skimmer hidden in gas pump a first in Alberta?
Some interesting statistics from a news story by Jason Van Rasse about how a skimmer that was found inside a gas pump was the first incident of its kind in Alberta: The Canadian Bankers Association said credit card fraud in Canada totalled $358 million last year — with counterfeit cards accounting for almost half that…
UK: Council loses personal details of children in care
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has undertaken to improve the security of personal data held on portable media devices following the loss of a USB memory stick containing sensitive personal information of 40 children in their care, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was made aware of this breach of the Data Protection Act…
UK: Pc accused of lying to help lover ‘misused database’
A Strathclyde Police officer accused of lying to help protect his lover carried out a check on his partner using an official database, a court has heard. Det Supt Shona Bassano told Glasgow Sheriff Court that Pc Steven Smith searched for his boyfriend David Brydon on the Scottish Intelligence Database. Read more on BBC.
UK: Local Authority disclosed personal data on Planning Department website
New Forest District Council breached the Data Protection Act by publishing the personal data of planning applicants on their website, the Information Commissioner said today. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) received a complaint from a New Forest resident in 2008, after council staff failed to appropriately redact personal data from the resident’s planning application before…