From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. This follows incidents where personal data relating to a number of individuals was sent to unintended recipients due to typing errors in the address of the correspondence. On investigation…
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Japanese oil association hit by cyber-attack
Japan’s Petroleum Association was hit by a targeted cyber-attack earlier this month, which saw numerous PCs become infected with an unknown virus. Read more on SCMagazine.
Russian hackers blamed for TV5 cyber attack
Catherine Hardy reports: Police in France say they now think the cyber attack on TV5 Monde in April was the work of a group of Russian hackers known as APT28, and not the group calling itself Islamic State, as originally suggested. Jihadist propaganda was posted on TV5’s website during the infiltration in April. Details of…
Ca: House of Commons says data theft warning a ‘miscommunication’
Chloe Fedio reports: A strongly-worded warning Friday that cyberattacks on House of Commons employees had resulted “in the theft of large volumes of personal data” was a miscommunication, a spokeswoman from the Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told CBC News. Read more on CBC.
Lithuanian Military Website hacked to post false information
giu writes: If we had to believe what we saw on Lithuanian Armed Forces website on Thursday morning, then the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949, is preparing for the annexation of Kaliningrad, Russia’s…
China begins issuing e-IDs to fight personal info leaks
China’s Ministry of Public Security has issued its first batch of e-IDs backed by an independent, Internet-based identity recognition system for citizens, as the country moves to fight personal information leaks, the Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News reported Sunday. Read more on China Daily.