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Monday, 14 January 2019
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Polish security services have arrested a Chinese national and Polish national for spying, according to local press. Poland's public TV channel TVP reports that the Chinese national is an employee of Chinese telecoms firm Huawei. https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1P50RJ
An inquiry has found that hackers resembling state-sponsored actors were responsible for the biggest cyber attack in Singapore’s history, which targeted the healthcare details of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and accessed the data of a quarter of the population. A report published on Thursday described the hackers involved in last year’s attack as “skilled and sophisticated,” with characteristics matching “state-linked cyber attackers who conduct extended, carefully planned cyber campaigns, to steal information or disrupt operations”.
https://www.ft.com/content/70c118c0-14c8-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e[UK]
Police will be given new powers to tackle the illegal use of drones, the government has announced. The area around airports where drones are banned from flying will also be extended, and from 30 November operators of drones between 250g and 20kg will need to be registered.
A hacker was able to directly message tens of thousands of Australians after infiltrating an emergency warning system used by governments. The breach of the Early Warning Network (EWN) is believed to have occurred some time on Saturday [5th January], when the culprit sent messages via email and SMS.
German authorities sought help from the U.S. National Security Agency after discovering that hackers had released private data linked to Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians. German authorities say a suspect in the hacking of German politicians' data has been arrested.
https://www.ft.com/content/1fb25bc2-1330-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e
The ongoing US government shutdown is an embarrassment to the country’s technology industry, a leading figure has said. Several government officials had to pull out of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a trade event which begins this week, because of the current political stalemate.
A former Rizal Commercial Banking Corp bank manager on Thursday was found guilty of money laundering in connection with the $81-million cyber heist on Bangladesh's central bank 3 years ago.
A stay-at-home father once accused of hacking Pippa Middleton is now fighting extradition to the US over cyber attacks on healthcare firms. Nathan Wyatt, 37, was arrested in 2016 after the Duchess of Cambridge's sister had 3,000 images stolen from her iCloud account.
Konstantin Teplyakov, a convicted member Russia’s hacking group Shaltai-Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, has been released on parole, the United press service of St. Petersburg courts has [said].
http://www.rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20190109/293418631.html
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