AFP reports: The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which has a network of a quarter of a million sensors, said there were 25.66 billion attempts to compromise systems, according to a report by Kyodo News. The figure includes attacks aimed at testing the vulnerability of software used in servers. The survey was…
Category: Non-U.S.
CAVIRTEX shutting down following security issues
Katherine Fletcher reports: Canadian Bitcoin exchange CAVIRTEX announced Tuesday that it is ceasing operations next month following a possible security breach. The Calgary-based company will cease trading on March 20 and stop processing withdrawals on March 25, reported the Georgia Straight. CAVIRTEX said that on Sunday, “we found reason to believe that an older version of…
Optimus fine for employee snooping on journalist comms reduced from €4.5 mln to €100,000
Telecompaper reports: A fine imposed by the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD) on mobile operator Optimus (now Nos, after the merger with Zon) has been reduced from EUR 4.5 million to EUR 100,000, reports Tek. The fine was imposed for illegal access by an employee of the company to the detailed communications of a journalist…
UK: Borough council admits data security breaches
Richard Rush reports: Contact details of members of the public who had put in Freedom of Information requests to Charnwood Borough Council were accidently leaked on to the internet in one of three data breaches by the authority during the past five years. Other documents accidently uploaded on to the borough council’s website were lists…
UK: Police chief investigated over Trojan horse school leak
Andrew Gilligan reports: A senior counter-terrorism officer is under investigation after passing confidential security information to the school at the centre of the Trojan Horse plot. Brett Williams, an inspector with West Midlands Police, has been interviewed under caution by the force’s professional standards department. In emails from 2013, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, he…
Egyptian court puts ousted president Mursi on trial over Qatar link
There are insider breaches and then there are insider breaches. Reuters reports: An Egyptian court has put ousted president Mohamed Mursi on trial on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, furthering a state crackdown on his outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. […] The public prosecutor had said Mursi’s aides were involved in leaking…