Kate Dubinski reports: A 15-year-old hacker accused of breaking into the Thames Valley District school board’s website and exposing the passwords of 27,000 high school students has been criminally charged.The boy was arrested and charged with four criminal code offences: Intercepting a computer function – Fraudulently obtaining computing services. Using a computer with intent to…
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(update) Telstra: privacy breach mail-out was our fault, not printer’s
Daniel Fitzgerald reports: Telstra has said an internal error – not the printer, SEMA – was behind the privacy breach bungle that last week saw around 220,000 letters delivered to wrong addresses. It is understood that SEMA, which handled the printing and mailing of the letter discussing upcoming fixed line price changes, was supplied with…
Ca: Personal data at risk, study found
Dana Flavelle reports that private investigators hired by an association of secure document disposal companies found lots of personal information in dumpsters in the Greater Toronto area. Doctors offices and car dealers got an unwanted shout-out in their findings. Most organizations, especially large banks and hospitals, are doing a good job of disposing of sensitive…
Audit: Province and U of Calgary must do better job
Jamie Komarnicki reports: The provincial government and the University of Calgary must do a better job of protecting against unauthorized access to confidential online information, warns Alberta’s auditor general. Service Alberta and the U of C each came under fire in Merwan Saher’s latest report, released Tuesday, for not demonstrating they’ve implemented adequate security policies,…
AU: Telstra botched mail-out exposes 220,000 customers
Asher Moses reports: Telstra is being investigated by both the communications and privacy watchdogs after it sent out 220,000 letters that contained account information belonging to other customers. The letters, which contained the name, phone number and telephone plan of customers other than the recipients, explained upcoming fixed line price changes. Telstra blamed the privacy…
Did Dutch Police Break the Law Taking Down a Botnet?
Interesting article by Jeremy Kirk about how Dutch police may have broken the law in an attempt to get control of a botnet and to warn innocent users that their systems were infected: Dutch police took unprecedented action in taking down a botnet on Monday: They uploaded their own program to infected computers around the…