Livern Barrett reports: The Jamaican Government, after months of silence, has disclosed that it has signed a five-year J$4-billion contract with the Israeli firm ELTA Systems Limited, but has sought to assure Jamaicans that they have nothing to fear. The disclosure and simultaneous assurance comes two months after a report by a technology website based…
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Chinese hackers target Indian vaccine makers SII, Bharat Biotech, says security firm
Reuters reports: A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunisation campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters. Read more on CNBC
PH: Civil Service Commission data breach, thousands of user details exposed
Art Samaniego reports: A hacker who calls himself IamNoobie told me that he was so pissed-off with the way government agencies implement security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”. IamNoobie noticed that the server of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has promising results when he Google…
NL: Secondary school in Lochem pays ransom after cyber attack criminals
NOS reports: Staring College, with offices in Lochem and Borculo, has paid ransom to cyber criminals who locked files. School board member Carlien Krist-Spit tells Omroep Gelderland that payment has been made to prevent education from being given for a longer period of time. The school noted the attack on Tuesday. A lot of data suddenly turned out to…
Et tu, Canada? Evidence of Harm Required To Advance Class Action Following Data Breach
Ranjan Agarwal, Keely Cameron, J. Sébastien A. Gittens, and Justin Lambert of Bennett Jones write: Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm or loss. This class…
Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island. JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government process travelers arriving on the island. Quarantine orders are issued by the…