From PayBefore: The European Banking Authority (EBA) working with the European Central Bank (ECB) recently released a consultation paper on guidelines for payment service providers (PSPs) to follow in the event of security breaches. Among the suggested mandates is notifying authorities of an incident within two hours from the moment the breach is detected—that’s significantly faster than…
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Boy, 17, who showed cyber criminals how to carry out a £42m attack on TalkTalk is given a 12 month rehabilitation order and has his phone confiscated
Thomas Burrows reports: A 17-year-old boy who hacked TalkTalk has been given a 12-month youth rehabilitation order and had his iPhone and computer hard drive confiscated for his role in the multi-million pound data breach. The boy, who was 16 at the time, used a software ‘hacking tool’ which uncovered the weakness before posting details…
Massive Australian Taxation Office data loss feared after Hewlett Packard Enterprise equipment crash
Fleur Anderson and Paul Smith report: The Australian Taxation Office has restored access to some of its online services, but concerns remain that large amounts of data have been lost after it suffered a “world-first” technical glitch to equipment from Hewlett Packard Enterprise more than 24 hours earlier. Tax officials were reportedly told to work…
Hacker Claims Theft of Thousands of Passport Numbers from Russian Consulate
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of passport numbers and other pieces of personal information from the website of a Russian consular department. The hacker, who calls himself Kapustkiy, plans to publish around a thousand records out of the 30,000 or so he allegedly obtained. The apparent target was ambru.nl, the…
UK: Operation Vulcanalia targets users of netspoof website attack tool
From an NCA press release today: Twelve people have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation targeting customers of website crippling software which can cost as little as £4. Netspoof stresser was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) programme that disabled web servers and websites by flooding them with massive amounts of…
The man hacking India’s rich and powerful talks motives, music, drugs and next targets
Max Bearak reports: Somewhere in India, a young man is sitting in a room, parked in front of his computer, smoking copious amounts of marijuana and causing great embarrassment to some of the country’s biggest movers and shakers. He and a group of others — who he claims number in the “higher single digits” and are based around…