Thousands of websites are being hit by cyber-thieves who implant code to scoop up payment card numbers, research suggests. Security giant Symantec found more than 4,800 websites were being hit by these “form-jacking” attacks every month. High-profile victims of these attacks include airline BA and Ticketmaster. Online crime groups had turned to the attacks as […]

And this weekend arrived with quite serious bulletins around the crypto industry. An Israel based crypto exchange, Coinmama suffered a massive data breach. It has been revealed that about 450000 users were affected and their emails and hashed passwords were breached. Coinmama Suffered Data Breach A quick Reddit post and twitter handle explain that the […]

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s data protection watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google 50 million euros ($57 million) on Monday for breaching European Union online privacy rules, the biggest such penalty levied against a U.S. tech giant. The French regulator said the world’s biggest search engine lacked transparency and clarity in the way it informs users about its […]

A lost computer drive by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) between Wellington and Auckland earlier this month was potentially far more damaging than the ‘little risk of personal identity theft’ described by NZTA at the time, National’s Data and Cybersecurity spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “National has received documents which show the huge extent […]

JFSC approach for collecting 2018’s data, Phase III of our Supervisory Data Collection Exercise. Key facts This exercise will begin promptly in the New Year on 14 January 2019. The JFSC will be asking for the same data for 2018 as we previously collected for Phase 1 and Phase II. This is to determine whether […]

Organizations Must Comply With Data Breach Reporting Requirements or Face Fines Private sector organizations in Canada must now report all serious data breaches to the country’s privacy watchdog. As of Nov. 1, new provisions in the country’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act came into force, which include mandatory tracking of all data breaches […]

Package for better market supervision. Australia’s prudential regulator has been handed $58.7 million to address emerging risks areas stemming from cyber and fintech and improve its data collection capabilities The new funding, to be provided over the next four years, is intended to support the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) strengthen its supervision of the […]

Figure Eight’s Annual Data Scientist Report is now available. Figure Eight (formerly Crowdflower) has been taking the pulse of the data science community since 2015, and this year’s report focuses on both data scientists’ careers and compares their thoughts on AI with those of ethics professionals. Some of the findings include: 89% of data scientists love their job, […]