Joseph Brookes reports: Victoria’s privacy watchdog has called for data breach notification laws in the state after a government department failed to tell people their data had been exposed in a serious breach by a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child. The former case worker, Alexander Jones, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for…
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Breach of software maker used to backdoor ecommerce servers
Dan Goodin reports: FishPig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s systems…
Buenos Aires legislature announces ransomware attack
Jonathan Greig reports: The legislature of Argentina’s capital city announced a ransomware attack this week, saying that its internal operating systems were compromised and WiFi connectivity was down. In several tweets, the account for the legislature of Buenos Aires said the attack began on Sunday and took down the building’s WiFi network, among other systems….
Singapore corporations making progress in preventing cyberattacks
It was a back-handed compliment of sorts: experienced hackers telling DataBreaches that it had gotten noticeably harder for them to successfully attack big corporations in Singapore. “The most difficult country to attack now, are Singapore companies,” they told DataBreaches in a chat. “A lot has changed since 3 years ago. It is hard to even…
It’s like a veritable fire sale on Indonesians’ personal data
Indonesia’s private data protection bill cleared another hurdle and could be voted into law this week. As Bloomberg reports: Data operators could face up to five years in jail and a maximum fine of 5 billion rupiah ($337,000) for leaking or misusing private information, according to Indonesia’s new data privacy bill set to be passed…
“Proactive cyber defense” to be introduced to critical infrastructure
The following is a machine translation of a Yomiuri news story: The government is considering introducing an “active cyber defense” system to detect signs of an attack and identify the source of the attack in order to strengthen defense against cyber attacks on critical infrastructure such as communications and electricity. Adjustments will be made in…