Masako Wakae reports: Hackers have disclosed the names of more than 100 Japanese public organizations and companies that have website vulnerabilities (see below) since February this year. WooYun, a website operated by Chinese cybersecurity experts and others, disclosed the names of the Japanese companies on its website. […] So far WooYun has carried reports about the…
Category: Non-U.S.
Suspect arrested over using phishing sites to scam users of internet
The China Post reports: Police authorities in Taipei arrested a suspect last week on charges of setting up phishing websites that have allegedly stolen users’ confidential information, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB, 刑事局) has announced. The male suspect, surnamed Liao, was arrested on May 11 for setting up two phishing websites which he allegedly used…
Now It’s Three: Ecuador Bank Hacked via Swift
If you’d worry more about the health of your industry and all the consumers your industry serves instead of worrying just about your reputation and fallout, we might not be dealing with as many breaches. Share information, people! Devlin Barrett and Katy Burne report: A little-noticed lawsuit details a hacking attack similar to one that…
FF TD Marc MacSharry submits questions on Nama debtor leaks
Ciaran Hancock reports: Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry has submitted an additional 11 parliamentary questions to the Minister for Finance on the leaking of information connected with debtors of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama). These include a request for Michael Noonan to publish the report produced by Deloitte following its review of data security at Nama in 2012. Read more…
UK: Tesco call centre worker fined over customer data breach
So what do you think the penalty/fine should be for an employee wilfully emailing themselves customer data that they had no business copying and taking? Jail time? A monetary penalty? Community service? Keep in mind that the defendant had to return from Lithuania to be sentenced. Sounds serious, right? BBC reports that Thomas Wengierow, 47, who…
A second inadequately secured Mexican voter list exposes data on more than 2 million voters
MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery writes: This is just a quick note to explain that I discovered another publicly exposed Mexican database on Wednesday, May 20th. I reported it to the Mexican electoral authority (INE) that same day. Today, INE held a press conference and reported that the database has been taken offline. Their initial…