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Personal information of parents, staff at 127 schools accessed in data security breach

Personal information of parents, staff at 127 schools accessed in data security breach

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SINGAPORE: A data breach at one of its vendors has resulted in the “unauthorised access” of names and email addresses of parents and staff from five primary and 122 secondary schools, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Friday (Apr 19).  MOE said it was notified by Mobile Guardian that its user management portal had been breached on Wednesday, with the incident occuring at the company’s headquarters in Surrey, United Kingdom.  Mobile Guardian is a device management app (DMA) installed on personal learning devices used by students, like iPads and Google Chromebooks. The app enables parents to manage students’ device usage by restricting applications or websites and screen time.  MOE added its own device management app was not affected by the data breach as it is separate from Mobile Guardian’s user management portal and “remains safe for use”. “There is no evidence of unauthorised access into the MOE DMA. Parents whose students use the iPad or Chromebook can continue to use the DMA as usual,” it said. The ministry as well as the schools involved will notify …

Liz Truss’s book Ten Years To Save The West in breach of rules in place on minister’s memoirs | Politics News

Liz Truss’s book Ten Years To Save The West in breach of rules in place on minister’s memoirs | Politics News

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Liz Truss’s memoir broke the rules in place for ministers publishing works about their time in office. The former prime minister’s book, Ten Years To Save The West, came out earlier this week and tells of her time as the UK shortest-serving leader. This includes how her government was run, and details of her conversation with the late Queen Elizabeth II. Politics latest: ‘Big questions’ for Sunak over claims against Tory MP While Ms Truss submitted the book to civil servants in the Cabinet Office for review, a final sign-off was not sought before publication. A spokesperson for the Cabinet Office said: “This book was submitted to the Cabinet Office for review. While we would not publicise the details of any discussions, we did not agree to the final wording. So the author is in breach of the Radcliffe Rules.” The Radcliffe Rules, introduced in the wake of the publication in the 1970s of the diaries of Richard Crossman’s time in cabinet, prohibit the publication of content which is damaging or destructive to national security, …

Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach

Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach

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Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the enormous growth of API usage — around half of all internet traffic — is putting businesses’ data at risk. A common security risk is granting third parties overly permissive API access. Malicious hackers can leverage APIs to gain access to a company’s sensitive information. Cybersecurity startup Vorlon says it helps businesses protect their data from such incidents using its platform, and raised $15.7 million to improve its technology. Founded in 2022 by former Palo Alto Networks executives Amir Khayat and Amichay Spivak, Vorlon analyzes network traffic to detect and remediate potential API abuse in real-time. In an interview, Khayat said the company’s technology runs the analysis and lets the customer know “something that you need to be notified about and take an action on.” Vorlon continuously observes a company’s APIs and notifies them when vendors make updates helps …

Prince Harry forced to apologise for ‘confidentiality rule breach’ in High Court case | Royal | News

Prince Harry forced to apologise for ‘confidentiality rule breach’ in High Court case | Royal | News

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Prince Harry apologised after he breached confidentiality rules during his High Court battle against the Home Office by emailing information to Johnny Mercer. Court documents reveal the Duke of Sussex ‘breached a confidentiality ring’ in November 2023 when he emailed the veterans minister information about the court case. According to The Telegraph, the Prince has shared a close bond with Mercer as both served in Afghanistan. Tory MP Mercer has also been a keen supporter of the Invictus Games, even spearheading the Government’s bid to host the 2027 event in Birmingham. The pair were even spotted together drinking pints at last year’s games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Mr Justice Lane revealed the Prince’s breach in a costs ruling handed down on Monday. In it, he writes: “In November 2023, the claimant breached the terms of the confidentiality ring order by emailing certain information to a partner of Schillings, who was not within the confidentiality ring, and to the Rt Hon Johnny Mercer MP.” The judge explains Shaheed Fatima KC, the duke’s barrister, picked up on the …

Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users

Roku Breach Hits 567,000 Users

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After months of delays, the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend a controversial warrantless wiretap program for two years. Known as Section 702, the program authorizes the US government to collect the communications of foreigners overseas. But this collection also includes reams of communications from US citizens, which are stored for years and can later be warrantlessly accessed by the FBI, which has heavily abused the program. An amendment that would require investigators to obtain such a warrant failed to pass. A group of US lawmakers on Sunday unveiled a proposal that they hope will become the country’s first nationwide privacy law. The American Privacy Rights Act would limit the data that companies can collect and give US residents greater control over the personal information that is collected about them. Passage of such legislation remains far off, however: Congress has attempted to pass a national privacy law for years and has thus far failed to do so. Absent a US privacy law, you’ll need to take matters into your own hands. DuckDuckGo, …

BBC says omission of trans identity of murderer Scarlet Blake was breach of accuracy rules

BBC says omission of trans identity of murderer Scarlet Blake was breach of accuracy rules

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Scarlet Blake. Picture: Thames Valley Police/PA Wire The BBC has determined it was a breach of its accuracy rules not to tell audiences that murderer Scarlet Blake was a trans woman in its initial reporting of her conviction and sentencing. The broadcaster faced some criticism in February for describing her as a woman and using she/her pronouns. However Blake transitioned her gender identity in childhood. The BBC received complaints regarding an article on the Oxford page of the BBC News website on 23 February about Blake being found guilty of murder and the BBC News programme at 1pm on 26 February, the day she was sentenced. Most subsequent reports did refer to Blake’s gender identity. The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit “considered that the omission of such information in the two instances specified by complainants, in a context where it had become material to an understanding of the case, amounted to a breach of the BBC’s standards of accuracy”. Thanks for subscribing. Close The ECU said Blake’s trans status appeared to have become known to the …

Labour Calls For Suspense Of Israel Arms Sales If A “Clear Risk” Of International Law Breach

Labour Calls For Suspense Of Israel Arms Sales If A “Clear Risk” Of International Law Breach

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Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. 02nd Apr, 2024. Palestinians inspect the damage at al-Shifa Hospital complex, following a two-week military operation by the Israeli army in Gaza City. (alamy) 4 min read2 hr Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy has called on foreign secretary David Cameron to publish the government’s legal advice on Israel’s actions in Gaza and suspend UK arms sales to Israel if there is a “clear risk” it is violating international law in Gaza. In a statement on Wednesday following the killing of British aid workers by the Israeli military on Monday night, Lammy accused Cameron of “going silent” on what legal advice Government has received on Israel’s attacks in Gaza.  Lammy also said Labour’s “deepest sympathies go out to the families of the three heroic Brits who put their lives on the line to get Palestinian civilians the aid they desperately need”, adding “Israel must face serious consequences” for their killings. On Monday night, the Israeli military killed seven people working for charity World Central Kitchen in Gaza in airstrikes, three of whom were British nationals. …

Donald Tusk warns European war has begun after Russian drones breach airspace | World | News

Donald Tusk warns European war has begun after Russian drones breach airspace | World | News

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He said: “I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past. It’s real and it started over two years ago.” Warsaw’s response to the breach of its airspace has been swift, with forces placed on heightened readiness, but the situation remains precarious. Moscow continues to escalate its attacks, targeting key infrastructure in Ukraine in apparent retaliation for Ukrainian aerial assaults on the Russian border region of Belgorod. Tusk has called for urgent assistance to Ukraine and emphasised the need for greater cooperation among European powers, particularly Poland, Germany, and France. He said: “We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War. I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. The prewar era.” DON’T MISS: Source link

Poh Heng Jewellery hit by data breach, customers’ personal information may have been compromised

Poh Heng Jewellery hit by data breach, customers’ personal information may have been compromised

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SINGAPORE: Poh Heng Jewellery has notified its customers about a database breach that occurred on Monday (Mar 25). In response to CNA’s query, Ezekiel Chin, data protection officer at the jewellery company, said that the unauthorised access may have compromised members’ personal information. “Upon discovery, we took prompt action to secure our system and have since reported the incident to the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and Singapore Police Force (SPF),” said Mr Chin. “We have also confirmed that no passwords and payment information were leaked.” When asked why the affected users were not notified upon discovery of the breach, Mr Chin told CNA the immediate priority then was to secure the company’s database and to ensure that there was no further compromise of data and its platforms. “We also needed time to consolidate findings to report to PDPC and SPF to support and facilitate their investigations. “While this may have taken time, it allowed us to better communicate steps taken to contain and resolve the situation to our affected members.” A check by CNA …

Serious security breach hits EU police agency – POLITICO

Serious security breach hits EU police agency – POLITICO

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They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. But a clutch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top law enforcement executives went missing last summer. Europe’s law enforcement agency has been mired in a whodunit ever since. According to an internal agency note seen by POLITICO, and conversations with current and former staff, the hardcopy personnel files of Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle and other senior officials leaked sometime before September. “On Sep. 6, 2023, the Europol Directorate was informed that personal paper files of several Europol staff members had disappeared,” read the note. When officials checked all the agency’s records, it discovered “additional missing files,” it added. The incident has been the talk of the agency based in The Hague, with staff exchanging notes over how the files went missing — and, above all, trying to figure out how Europe’s central law enforcement authority got itself into such a mess. “Given Europol’s role as law enforcement authority, …