Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans TalkTalk has been fined a record £400,000 for security failings over a cyber attack which allowed customer data to be accessed ‘with ease’, a watchdog announced. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the attack last October could have been prevented if The…
Trump Hotels Fined Over Credit Card Data Breach, Victims Left In The Cold
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When the Trump Hotels chain suffered its second data breach last year, the group was rather slow to issue a public warning. The State of New York is not all too happy about this lackluster approach and fined Trump Hotels The…
Rizal Commercial Banking Corp fined $21m over cybersecurity failings
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Philippines’ central bank, has issued a PHP 1 billion ($21 million) fine to Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) for cybersecurity failings. RCBC was used by cyber criminals to channel $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central…
Driver Fined $640
The driver in a video depicting a donut and burnout on Coastal Highway that went viral and became symbolic of some of the complaints associated with the spring Cruisin’ event pleaded guilty last week to negligent driving and a handful of other violations and was fined a total of $640….
Hacker Fined $8,000 for Government Cyber Attack!
The Straits Times reports that Delson Moo Hiang Kng, 43, was recently fined $8,000 for hacking into the website of the Istana, the offiical residence of the president of Singapore. Moo, who plead guilty to one of three charges of unauthorized access to the website’s server, is the first person…
Maino Was Arrested & Fined For Driving Bentley With Suspended License
Maino‘s insistence on not damaging his Bentley Continental got him arrested. Last month, the rapper was caught driving with a suspended licence and without a licence plate on the front of his ride. TMZ reports: We’ve confirmed … Maino — real name Jermaine Coleman — was initially pulled over around 10:…
ProtectMyID: #FBI Friday: An office manager is sentenced and fined after years of embezzling from her employer. http://t.co/KExsCNC3
ProtectMyID: #FBI Friday: An office manager is sentenced and fined after years of embezzling from her employer. http://t.co/KExsCNC3 View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Typosquatters fined £100,000 for premium rate SMS deception
Two firms found to have used typosquatting domains to lure consumers to misleading web competitions have each been hit with unprecedented £100,000 fines, the UK industry watchdog has announced. Premium rate regulator PhonepayPlus ruled that Dutch-based companies RD Media Europe and Unavalley BV were guilty of running a premium rate…
Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 for email data breach
Cheshire East Council has been hit with a £80,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after an employee sent an email containing sensitive information using her personal email account rather than via the council’s secure system. The employee was asked to contact the local voluntary sector co-ordinator in May,…
Nokia fined for spam texts in Australia (Reuters)
Reuters – Australian regulators have fined Nokia, the world’s largest cellphone maker by volume, A$55,000 ($58,000) for spamming customers and said the Finnish company should change its text message (SMS) marketing. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
