Stewart Baker responds to Joseph Menn’s recent report on companies fighting back against attackers. He comments on the different offensive strategies: Here’s the problem. A generation of computer crime lawyers at the Justice Department has devoted their careers to discouraging the reaction that Menn describes. That’s because the fundamental law in this area, the law…
Month: June 2012
AU: No answers from Qld Health
John Corlett reports: More than one week after a major security breach, Queensland Health still does not know how a number of sensitive medical documents were left lying in the gutter. Rockhampton Hospital began an investigation into the security breach early last week after The Morning Bulletin carried a story revealing that sensitive medical documents…
Kayak.com investigates after customer discovers security breach
Dylan C. Robertson reports: Kevin Hunt travels whenever he finds time off and a good deal. So when his credit statement listed Kayak.com, he went to the travel booking site to see which trip the charge was for. The site allows people to find reservation details by searching their last name and the last four…
Updates to Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach report
As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Hacked By @UG #UGNAZI
@UG aka #UGNAZI has been very very busy the past few weeks with big and high profile targets being attacked and lots of main media attention being directed towards them. The latest attack is on Six Flags Entertainment Corporation which has been breached, hacked and now sports a all new deface page. The hack has seen…
Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps
Joseph Menn of Reuters reports that some U.S. firms are fighting back against hackers in unorthodox – if not downright illegal – ways: “Not only do we put out the fire, but we also look for the arsonist,” said Shawn Henry, the former head of cybercrime investigations at the FBI who in April joined new…