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…
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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…
SG: Ex-staff sergeant jailed for abetting unauthorized data access and other crimes
Elena Chong reports on a case in Singapore where a police officer in the Clementi police division of the Singapore Police has been sentenced to jail for soliciting a colleague who then accessed the the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s computer system to check on a friend’s former boyfriend. Rishinder, a Singapore permanent resident, was yesterday sentenced…
Australia: 13,000+ User Accounts Leaked From Fairfax Media Because…. SQLi
I knew if I waited a day, Lee Johnstone would analyze the data and make some sense of it for us. 🙂 RiskBasedSecurity reports: It’s become cliche for news articles about data breaches to begin with: “hardly a day goes by without a new headline announcing yet another data breach”. Today, RBS’ researchers discovered that…
“Phineas Fisher” provides tutorial on hacking police sites
From the can-the-skids-be-far-behind dept. Joseph Cox reports that “Phineas Fisher,” the anonymous individual also known as HackBack and GammaGroupPR, and who is reportedly responsible for the hack on Hacking Team, has released a tutorial video showing others how to attack police sites. I imagine the tutorial will not be up for long, but… In this case,…