Collaborate Disseminate
Anna Isaac reports: “The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water. Sometimes the defences are bre… Continue reading Thames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claim
Canan Sevgili of Reuters reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com’s gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. KVKK launched an i… Continue reading Turkey fines Amazon’s Twitch 2 million lira for data breach
The following is an automated machine translation. Matthew Garvey reports: The data of approximately 200,000 citizens of Sector 5 (such as CNP, first and last name, address, among others) were put up for sale by the hackers who launched a cyber attack … Continue reading Ransomware attack on Bucharest: data of hundreds of thousands of citizens involved
Bill Toulas reports: The Federal Ministry of Justice in Germany has drafted a law to provide legal protection to security researchers who discover and responsibly report security vulnerabilities to vendors. When security research is conducted within th… Continue reading Germany drafts law to protect researchers who find security flaws
On October 26, FREE S.A.S., a major ISP in France, confirmed that it had been hacked after a threat actor calling himself “drussellx” listed customer data up for auction on a popular hacking forum. Drussellx claimed to have acquired the inf… Continue reading Hackers claimed the FREE S.A.S. data had been sold. One now claims that wasn’t true.
Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part… Continue reading DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 250,000 [USD $22,669.69] on Grue municipality for breach of GDPR requirements. They explain: Personal data that should have been confidential was made avai… Continue reading No: Administrative fine issued to Grue municipality under GDPR
Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DD… Continue reading Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election
Iain Thomson reports: The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava. An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Sec… Continue reading Fr: Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
Harvey Cashore, Daniel Leblanc report: At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canad… Continue reading Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds