Protenus, Inc. has released its 2017 review of breaches involving health data. It is the second annual review they have published since we began collaborating on data collection and analyses. As a reminder of last year’s major findings: Protenus reported that in 2016, insider incidents constituted approximately 43% of the 450 incidents we had compiled…
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Security researcher released; had been jailed 8 months while awaiting trial on charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent
After almost eight months in pre-trial detention on charges of cyberstalking a Dallas FBI agent, Texas dental integrator and independent security researcher Justin Shafer got to go home tonight after a federal judge agreed with Shafer’s lawyer who appealed the revocation of Shafer’s pre-trial release. Shafer had been jailed since earlier this year on charges…
Shafer’s attorney appeals revocation of his pretrial release
Attorneys for Justin Shafer have appealed the revocation of his pretrial release. As regular readers of this site likely know already, Shafer has been in jail since April on charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent and the agent’s family. Those cyberstalking charges have nothing to do with three FBI raids conducted on Shafer prior to…
Is a vendetta by the FBI keeping an innocent man in jail, or has DOJ just lost its mind altogether?
I’ve had enough. Actually, I’ve had more than enough. I should have written this post months ago. Last week I received notice from Twitter Legal that they had been served with a grand jury subpoena for my account information. Also listed in the grand jury subpoena were four other Twitter accounts, only one of which…
Senators introduce bill to secure Internet of Things devices; provide some protection for researchers
Zack Whittaker reports: A bipartisan group of senators have introduced legislation aimed at securing internet-connected smart devices, which were at the center of a massive cyberattack that brought down large swathes of the internet last year. The distributed denial-of-service in October lasted for less than a day, but it further fueled concerns about threats posed by…
45,000 Facebook Users Leave One-Star Ratings After Hacker’s Unjust Arrest
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug. The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an 18-year-old found a flaw in…