Dan Oakes reports: A Melbourne man, allegedly part of the Anonymous online collective, has been charged over the revenge hacking of Australian intelligence agency websites. Mathew John Hutchison faced Melbourne Magistrates Court this week, accused of urging Indonesian hackers to attack the websites of ASIO, the Australian Signals Directorate and Australia’s overseas spy agency, ASIS….
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NZ: Kiwibank cancels eftpos cards over security breach scare
ONE News reports: Kiwibank is contacting “at risk” customers after a machine was compromised. ONE News understands Kiwibank is cancelling eftpos cards and ringing customers advising them to pick up a new one in store. Read more on ONE News.
UK: 10,000 Drivers In Parking Ticket Data Breach
Roddy Mansfield reports: A database of parking ticket details for almost 10,000 motorists has been mistakenly published online, a Sky News investigation can reveal. PaymyPCN.net, which claims to have collected penalty charges for 20 years and has a direct link to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database, allows drivers to pay fines via…
Google Vietnam hacked and defaced by Lizard Squad
Vijay reports: The infamous band of hackers, Lizard Squad today hacked and defaced Google Vietnam’s home page. The attack started at around 12.00 pm Vietnam time and many Internet users in Vietnam were unable to get access to google.com.vn. The defaced screen showed a image of a teenager holding a iPhone and a video along with…
Ca: Cyberattack at NRC occurred weeks before alert sent out
Susan Lunn reports: The federal government was aware a hacker had stolen secret information from the National Research Council last summer for at least three weeks before it notified stakeholders, employees and the public. That warning went out on July 29, 2014, a day after news of the hacking incident first broke in the news media….
Ca: Service NL says employee inappropriately accessed records
CBC News reports: Service NL announced Friday it is investigating an inappropriate access of personal information by an employee with the department. In January, Motor Registration Division was alerted that an individual’s personal information may have been inappropriately accessed by an employee. Service NL later determined that an employee of the department had accessed the individual’s…