News Letter reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the TalkTalk cyber attack has won the right to challenge an alleged failure to implement legislation that would protect him from media identification. He was granted leave at the High Court in Belfast today to seek to judicially review the Department of Justice over claims it…
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AU: Pair facing 10 years jail for allegedly hacking student’s Facebook and deleting his uni enrolment data
Ken McGregor reports: A young man and woman who allegedly deleted a student’s university enrolment in five subjects and hacked his Facebook and email accounts face up to a decade in jail if convicted of the cybercrime. Jake Anthony Parker Davis, 21, of Port Noarlunga South, and Sarah Ruqayyah Salah, 22, of Melrose Park, have pleaded…
Hackers Held Data on 5,000 Canadians Hostage and the Government Didn’t Tell Anyone
Justin Ling reports: Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process. It was another Cryptowall case, but the foreign company was not named, and those Canadians whose passport applications were caught up in the incident…
Anonymous claims hack of police servers, releases case data in #OpSingleGateway
The Bangkok Post reports: Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective are claiming they have again penetrated secure Thai government computers, this time leaking private information from Royal Thai Police servers in a continuing protest against plans for a single internet gateway, which the group maintains have not been scrapped. Read more on Bangkok Post.
AU: Telcos and security agencies exempted from data breach rules in draft bill
Paul Farrell reports: Australian law enforcement agencies and telcos that suffer certain types of data breaches are likely to be exempt from rules requiring them to notify the people affected, under a draft bill. The federal government published on Thursday an exposure draft of mandatory data breach laws that would compel Australian companies – and in some…
UK: Crash details sold by Aviva manager to cold callers
As I’ve reported in the past, Aviva has had a few data breaches involving insiders improperly accessing and then selling customer data. A rogue employee involved in such conduct back in 2012 and 2013 is now in court. Sean Poulter reports: A court was told yesterday how Matthew Cooper, 28, abused his position as a manager in…