The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said (69-page / 542KB PDF) there are “major and unexplained variations in the extent to which individual departments report security breaches” at the moment, and urged the government to work with the UK’s data protection authority to develop new guidelines on the issue. “The Cabinet Office should consult with the Information…
Particle accelerator hacked: Boffins’ hashed passwords beamed up
Darren Pauli reports: UPDATE The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is investigating a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists’ usernames and passwords Friday. Hackers of as yet unknown origin hit systems hosting the web portal where researchers from ANSTO and third parties can request time to use the…
Norway’s Labour Party was hacked by Russia: report
The Labour Party’s parliamentary group suffered a hack in autumn that was carried out by Russians, TV2 reported. The attack against Labour is being compared to the hack of the Democratic National Committee that American intelligence agencies said was carried out by Russia in an effort to influence the outcome of the US election. According…
Officials: Ransom demanded in Licking County technology hack
Officials in Licking County tell 10TV that ransom was demanded for an IT hack that impacted the county’s phone and computer systems. A computer virus shut down more than a thousand computers inside the Licking county government center late Tuesday. A county commissioner says that the virus demanded a payment in Bitcoin for the county…
UK: Tiverton town hall has two years’ worth of documents deleted by virus that demanded £3,000 ransom
Joseph Curtis reports: A town clerk mistakenly opened a virus loaded email and wiped out every council document in the system since 2015. John Vanderwolfe, of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, said it was ‘the worst thing that’s happened in his 12 years in the role’, and added the blunder ‘is a lesson to us…
Two people arrested in U.K. in hacking of D.C. police closed-circuit camera network
Peter Hermann reports: Two people have been arrested in London in the hacking of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras, law enforcement authorities said Thursday. The arrests were made in the south London neighborhood of Streatham and followed a search warrant that was served Jan. 19, the day before the presidential…