Clement Ooi reports: The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore’s High Court today (Jul 13) Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed. While no sensitive data such as credit card…
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Au: Infrastructure companies must report cyberattacks within 12 hours
Tom Burton reports: Critical infrastructure operators must now report significant cyber breaches to the federal government within 12 hours of an attack, following the expiry of a three-month grace period that enabled nearly 2500 of them to prepare for the new rules. Owners of electricity, gas, ports and water, and sewerage assets are also required…
BR-Prefeitura Municipal de Itapemirim suffered a cyber attack
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Prefeitura Municipal de Itapermirim in Brazil alerted people that it had been the victim of a cyberattack on July 10 and ransom has been demanded: The following is a machine translation of their Facebook statement: The Municipal Prefecture of Itapemirim goes public to inform that the Municipality’s…
Hackers Posing as Merkel Target ECB’s Lagarde – German Source
Francesco Canepa and Andreas Rinke of Reuters report: Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an…
Au: Deakin U. targeted in cyberattack
Deakin University reports: On Sunday 10 July, Deakin University became aware of an incident in which a staff member’s username and password was hacked and used by an unauthorised person to access information held by a third-party provider. This third-party has been engaged by Deakin to forward messages prepared by the University to students via…
Fr: The Department of Indre-et-Loire victim of a cyber attack
Romain Dézèque reports: The Department of Indre-et-Loire was the victim of a computer attack during the night of July 10 to 11. All of the local authority’s services were paralyzed. Read more at France Bleu Touraine