Joseph George reports Several credit cards are being replaced across the UAE by some banks following a possible security beach involving online hackers. ‘Emirates24|7’ has learnt of at least two banks that have issued warnings to their customers and blocked their cards in order to issue replacement cards. […]Last month, local media had reported…
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UK: ICO issues £180,000 civil monetary penalty in wake of data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued civil monetary penalty (CMP) of £180,000 to the Money Shop in the wake of two incidents in 2014 that led to a fuller investigation of the Money Shop’s data protection policies and procedures. As described in the notice, on April 16, 2014, a Money Shop store in Lurgan, Northern Ireland was…
Ca: Electronic devices containing bureaucrats’ personal information stolen from government office
It’s probably diagnostic that I still get excited when I see a report that data on stolen devices were encrypted. Michael Woods reports: Someone broke in to a government building earlier this year and made off with electronic devices containing the personal information of 260 government workers, newly released documents show – a privacy breach…
Germany Convicts Notorious Russian Hacker In Navalny Email Breach
Carl Schreck reports: A German court has convicted a notorious hacker of cybercrimes linked to the theft of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navanly’s emails and the hijacking of his Twitter account. A district court in Bonn on August 5 handed Sergei Maksimov, a Russian-born German resident, an 18-month suspended sentence after finding him guilty of hacking…
ZA: Investigations underway into stolen UK visa applications
Gia Nicolaides reports: JOHANNESBURG – The British High Commission has released a statement saying it’s doing everything it can to assist people who lost their UK visa applications and supporting documents, following a hijacking in Johannesburg. Eyewitness News (EWN) has learnt that scores of South Africans applying for visas either for business, pleasure or permanent relocation, lost all their personal…
AU: A junior Defence staffer allegedly took home an intelligence report and posted it online
Christopher Knaus and Michael Inman report: An Australian spy agency says it has no way of knowing who has obtained a “highly sensitive” report meant for our top allies after it was allegedly leaked by a junior defence bureaucrat on an online forum. In an embarrassing security breach, a 21-year-old Department of Defence graduate allegedly managed to download a secret…