Seriously? Still? Cardiff council says it will investigate after hundreds of confidential email addresses were published. Landlords who are on the mailing list for Rent Smart Wales received an email on Thursday from a Cardiff council email address. In that email, the email addresses of all recipients were visible. Read more on WalesOnline.
Category: Non-U.S.
United Arab Emirates: Cyber Security And Data Protection Breaches: A Brief Comparative Review
Simon Isgar and Bernadette Pinto of Kennedys write, in part: The Saudi Aramco attack of 2012 has been described3 as the first ‘hackavist-style’ assault to use malware. The attack managed to destroy 30,000 computers within the Aramco network, which were believed by security researchers to have been infected with the Shamoon malware. The consequences faced by…
UK parliamentary watchdog bemoans inconsistent personal data breach reporting within government
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said (69-page / 542KB PDF) there are “major and unexplained variations in the extent to which individual departments report security breaches” at the moment, and urged the government to work with the UK’s data protection authority to develop new guidelines on the issue. “The Cabinet Office should consult with the Information…
Particle accelerator hacked: Boffins’ hashed passwords beamed up
Darren Pauli reports: UPDATE The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is investigating a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists’ usernames and passwords Friday. Hackers of as yet unknown origin hit systems hosting the web portal where researchers from ANSTO and third parties can request time to use the…
Norway’s Labour Party was hacked by Russia: report
The Labour Party’s parliamentary group suffered a hack in autumn that was carried out by Russians, TV2 reported. The attack against Labour is being compared to the hack of the Democratic National Committee that American intelligence agencies said was carried out by Russia in an effort to influence the outcome of the US election. According…
UK: Tiverton town hall has two years’ worth of documents deleted by virus that demanded £3,000 ransom
Joseph Curtis reports: A town clerk mistakenly opened a virus loaded email and wiped out every council document in the system since 2015. John Vanderwolfe, of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, said it was ‘the worst thing that’s happened in his 12 years in the role’, and added the blunder ‘is a lesson to us…