A client of the company has sued First American Financial Corp claiming the company put him at risk of identity theft due to their lax security measures. The lawsuit follows the announcement on KrebsOnSecurity, that 885 million documents dating as far back as 2003 had been compromised online. The documents related to mortgage deals included […]
Data Protection
US license plate scanning company hacked
Known as “Boris Bullet-Dodger”, the hacker broke into the company’s database and posted its data on the dark web. According to The Register, the hacker breached the company, Perceptics, and leaked almost 65,000 file names and accompanying directories. The files included location data, zip codes, dates, timestamps, image files and other sensitive data amounting to […]
$42 million cyber-crime cost to Zimbabwe so far in 2019
Official research has found that Zimbabwe lost $42 million in the war against cyber-crime over the first four months of 2019. A report put together by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) records 4,001 instances of cyber-related crime committed since the start of the year, 1,132 of which have led to prosecution. The figures are an […]
EternalBlue tool believed to be used in Baltimore ransomware attack
The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) tool, EternalBlue is behind the Baltimore attack. According to a report in the New York Times, hackers used EternalBlue to exploit vulnerabilities in certain versions of Microsoft Windows, thus allowing malicious code to be run on infected computers. The NSA tool, EternalBlue was leaked […]
Snapchat: spying allegations are “wholly inaccurate”
Multiple employees have said to be allegedly abusing their access to private user data, Motherboard reveals. According to two former employees, Snapchat have dedicated tools that can access consumer data, and it is these tools that are being abused be employees. Employees could view user location information, saved Snaps, phone numbers, and email addresses. SnapLion […]
Citibank Hong Kong has been fined HK$10,000
Citibank Hong Kong has been found guilty of violating the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO). The bank plead guilty to committing a direct marketing offence involving violating the PDPO. The bank failed to comply with a requirement from a data subject who requested to cease using his personal data in direct marketing. The Privacy Commissioner […]
London Underground will start tracking passengers through Wi-Fi
Following a trial in 2016, Transport for London (TfL) will roll out Wi-Fi tracking on the London Underground. In a press release TfL announced that “secure, privacy-protected data collection will begin on 8 July 2019” with improved customer services such as alerts about delays and congestion within stations. TfL also stated that individual customer data […]
GDPR boosting workers’ confidence in data security, study finds
As the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation reaches its first anniversary, a new study reveals the new data laws’ positive impact on the way employees feel about data security in the workplace. The survey, conducted by ADP Research Institute, found that over half of the respondents (53%) said that their confidence has risen in the […]
Victims have lost over £27m due to crypto scams
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Action Fraud have warned the public to be wary of investment scams carried out via bogus online trading platforms. The warning follows after more than 1,800 cryptoassets and forex investment scams were reported in the UK in 2019, which is triple the amount from the previous year. Victims lost […]
APAC business must take cyber security more seriously
New research has found that most (80%) of organisations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region did not take cyber security into account until after starting digital transformation programmes. The study’s concerning results showed that 55% of those organisations remained at risk, despite carrying out regular breach audits. Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific is the analytics […]