Graham Cluley writes: Greater Manchester Police have warned that sensitive information about an ongoing criminal investigation was contained on a USB memory stick stolen from an officer’s home in Oldham, UK. The officer has been suspended, pending an investigation, and the matter has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Information Commissioner….
Ru: Internet Shopping Data Compromised
First it was Megafon leaking SMS history and having it indexed on Yandex’s search engine. Now there’s a bigger breach. Natalya Krainova of The Moscow Times reports: A third Internet leak in just a week has exposed the private shopping habits of people at more than 80 online stores, including those selling model cars, perfume…
AU: Westpac cans cards as AFP investigates breaches
Luke Hopewell reports: Westpac has this week confirmed that it has canned the cards of an undisclosed number of customers following a fresh merchant data breach. The breach comes as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) opens a new investigation into recent merchant data compromises. Westpac told ZDNet Australia this week that merchant data breaches are…
Maintenance Note
Regular readers may have noticed that there have been no updates since yesterday. That’s when I got an emergency call that my elderly mom had been rushed to the hospital. I will be mostly offline for the next few days or week. Eventually, I’ll get my blogs updated and email responded to. Im the meantime,…
Maintenance Note
Regular readers may have noticed that there have been no updates since yesterday. That’s when I got an emergency call that my elderly mom had been rushed to the hospital. I will be mostly offline for the next few days or week. Eventually, I’ll get my blogs updated and email responded to. Im the meantime,…
OpPayPal, day two the effects
Well still going flat out strong Anonymous Operation PayPal is doing damage, with word of over 35k accounts deleted(from the word on twitter) this is a peaceful protest so its really amazing how much attention the world is giving to this. First of all if you do not know what its about, Read here, and check here…