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Conservatives call for investigation into government data breaches that may have put Afghans in danger

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Dissent

CBC reports: The Conservatives have written to Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien to complain about a pattern of data breaches at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), CBC News has learned. The complaint is in response to a string of misdirected emails last month that may have exposed hundreds of vulnerable Afghans to danger. Read more on Yahoo!…

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UK: Are monetary penalties really a deterrent to data protection violations if few companies actually pay up?

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Dissent

I received an email today that made me think. It promised not to bother me about cottage cheese (see the Footer for context), and indeed, it offered me something of substance with no money exchanging hands at all. It seems TheSMSWorks had followed up on monetary penalties levied by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office and…

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Security Service of Ukraine identified FSB hackers who carried out more than 5,000 cyberattacks on state bodies of Ukraine

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Dissent

From an SSU press release: SSU cyber specialists have identified hackers from the notorious ARMAGEDON group, which carried out more than 5,000 cyber attacks on state bodies and objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine. They were officers of the “Crimean” FSB, as well as traitors who sided with the enemy during the occupation of the…

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UK: Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Dissent

John Leonard reports: The Labour Party has suffered a ‘cyber incident’ with personal details of members stolen from an unnamed third-party company that handles its membership data. In a statement the party says it was informed of the incident on October 29th and that “a significant quantity of Party data” had been rendered inaccessible. Labour does not give…

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Possible cyberattack hits ‘brain’ of N.L. health-care system, delaying thousands of appointments Social Sharing

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Dissent

CBC News reports: A cyberattack appears to be behind a provincewide disruption of health-care services in Newfoundland and Labrador that has affected thousands of appointments and procedures, including those involving COVID-19 testing. “We may have been victims of a possible cyberattack by a third party,” said Health Minister John Haggie at a news conference Monday morning….

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1,355 NUS Society members’ personal data stolen, possibly put on sale on Dark Web

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Dissent

Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of 1,355 National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) members has been stolen after the society’s website was hacked early last month, NUSS said on Monday (Nov 1). When asked by The Straits Times, the university graduate club did not say whether the data involved was encrypted. But it said…

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