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FBI seizes domain behind massive botnet
The FBI has seized a domain linked to what’s believed to be a Russian botnet composed of around 500,000 infected routers around the world. Accordin...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) fined £325,000 by the ICO for losing unencrypted DVDs
On 18 November 2016, the CPS received a package of 15 unencrypted DVDs from Surrey Police. Those DVDs contained recordings of intimate sensitive pe...
Durham school paid out £1,500 in ransom money after cyber-attack
In April 2017 a computer virus encrypted the Durham Sixth Form Centre college files. The County Durham school confirmed it had made a payment of £1...
Hotel door locks vulnerable to hack
Researchers say flaws they found in the equipment’s software meant they could create “master keys” that opened the rooms without leaving an activit...
European electrical grid fixed, 6 minutes brought back
Last month, the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) publicly admonished Serbia and Kosovo for not properly balancing their ...
IT meltdown causes national government shutdown
Sint Maarten, which used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles, and has a population of just over 42,000, has closed government offices during thi...
New Privacy Settings Announced by Facebook
Facebook has claimed that an overhaul of its privacy tools is the answer to the problems faced by people trying to understand what personal data Fa...
Facebook boss, Zuckerberg, refuses MP summons on data misuse
The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 20th March 2018 to summon him to explain how social media data i...
50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested
The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US...
