Were the Goatse crew wearing white hats, grey hats, or black hats when they exposed the iPad/ATT breach recently? John Brownlee says they did the right thing and comments on the arrest of one of them following the execution of a search warrant related to the breach disclosure: One of the members of the Goatse…
Month: June 2010
OH: Treasurer’s site exposes taxpayers’ information to hackers
Barbara Carmen reports: Franklin County property owners paying taxes online before Monday’s deadline might have innocently allowed thieves trolling cyberspace to snag checking-account or credit-card numbers. Computer experts installed safeguards in 2001 when the county adopted a second Web address, one thought to be more memorable. But many people were familiar with the old address,…
The Tie Between ID Theft & Illegal Immigration
Sarah Buduson reports on the relationship between ID theft and illegal immigration. What I particularly like about this piece is comments from Mark Pribish pointing out that although such cases are counted as ID theft, they’re not really ID theft and are (just) employment fraud. Of course, even employment fraud as opposed to cases where…
iPad Breach Update: More Personal Data Was Potentially At Risk
Kevin Mahaffey says that there was more personal information at risk in the recent iPad/AT&T breach than originally revealed: The iPad security breach last week potentially exposed the emails of 114,000 AT&T customers, but that is not the only information that could have been discovered by clever hackers. iPad owners will be surprised to know…
UK: Poor data security in the NHS
From the press release: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) remains highly concerned that data breaches involving people’s personal information are continuing to occur in NHS organisations. Today NHS Stoke-on-Trent and Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust are the latest NHS bodies found to have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA). Both NHS organisations’ chief…
SSA teleworkers may be putting personal data at risk, IG says
# Alice Lipowicz reports: While teleworking is improving morale at the Social Security Administration, it also may be exposing individuals’ personal information to unauthorized disclosure via employees’ computers, according to a new report from the SSA Office of Inspector General. […] “We [have] determined [that] Office of Disability Adjudication and Review practices may have exposed claimant data…