Unbelievable how many email breaches we’re seeing reported in New Zealand recently. Here’s yet another one: The Privacy Commissioner has been notified after the school marks of 38 teenaged pupils were sent to the wrong email recipients. Acting Secretary for Education Peter Hughes announced the privacy breach today, in relation to a PISA international study…
UK security breach study should prompt retailers to consider cyber insurance, expert says
Research commissioned by the Government has revealed that 87% of all UK SMEs and 93% of firms with more than 250 staff had experienced at least one security breach in 2012. The 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey report, (22-page / 640KB PDF) published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, also outlined a growing trend…
APF responds to AU’s data breach notification draft bill
The Australian Privacy Foundation has responded to Australia’s draft breach notification law. You can read their comments here. Not surprisingly, I agree with their concerns.
ICO FoI response reveals massive rise in data breach fines
Caroline Donnelly reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has stepped up its enforcement activities, by issuing double the number of data breach fines in 2012-2013 as it did in the previous 12 months. This is according to data obtained via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by digital comms vendor ViaSat. […] Between March 2012…
Honor among (credit card) thieves?
A Michigan State University criminologist dug into the seamy underbelly of online credit card theft and uncovered a surprisingly sophisticated network of crooks that is unique in the cybercrime domain. The thieves, Thomas Holt found, run an online marketplace for stolen credit data similar to eBay or Amazon where reputations drive sales. Thieves sell data…
AU IT security professional arrested; part of LulzSec
James W. Manning reports that a self-proclaimed leader of LulzSec known by the screen name of “Aush0k” has been arrested in Australia. And not surprisingly, the IT security firm he worked for as an IT professional has fired the 24-year-old. Matthew Flannery was arrested after he allegedly infiltrated a government website earlier this month. No…