Catalin Cimpanu reports: Canadian police have seized the domain of Fazny.ca, an online electronics store that stole users’ payment card data and used it to make fraudulent purchases. According to a statement from the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), its Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit started looking into the website after a user complained of fraudulent purchases…
Category: Non-U.S.
CHINA: first 100 days of Cybersecurity Law sees active enforcement and more guidelines, but still uncertainties
Carolyn Bigg of DLA Piper writes: Almost 100 days have passed since the new PRC Cybersecurity Law came into force. While the enforcement environment is becoming clearer – and shows data protection and cyber security in China is a real risk to be taken seriously – most of the new guidelines published to try to…
Some U.K. pharma firms decline to report data breaches, survey
Doug Olenick reports: A survey of more than 400 U.K. IT professionals in the U.K. pharmaceutical business found many do not report data breaches, in many cases because they do not know how. Well, 15% is not what I’d summarize as “in many cases.” The real headline is that almost 1 in 4 willfully do…
Ca: MacEwan University defrauded of nearly $12M in phishing scam
Caley Ramsay reports: MacEwan University said its IT systems are secure after the institution was defrauded of nearly $12 million in a phishing scam compounded by human error. The university learned it was the victim of an attack last Wednesday, Aug. 23 after a series of fraudulent emails “convinced university staff to change electronic banking…
AU: Medicare data breach: government response ‘contemptible’, says former AFP officer
Melissa Davey reports: The federal government’s response to a Medicare data breach that led to patient details being sold on the dark web was “disappointing, confusing and often contemptible,” according to a former detective who headed the Australian federal police’s investigations into high-tech crime. Nigel Phair, now an adjunct professor at the University of Canberra’s…
Mystery surrounds malware attack that forced German state parliament offline
Graham Cluley reports: According to media reports, a malware attack has managed to disrupt the operations of parliamentary business in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. The problem at the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag appears to have started after a state parliament employee opened a malicious email attachment on Wednesday that proceeded to infect their PC. The…