Meanwhile, in Estonia: On Tuesday, Harju County Court found Alice Järvet, a former head of the analysis and planning bureau, guilty of leaking information from a police database. Järvet was fined 9,398 euros and was suspended from police work for three years, court spokeswoman Kristina Ots told uudised.err.ee. In January, the public prosecutor made a…
Month: March 2013
DOE reveals data disclosure involving 12,000 workers
It’s been a rough few days for governmental agencies, it seems. First it was the GSA breach, and now DOE. Bob Pavey reports: Federal authorities are investigating a security breach in which personal information from at least 12,000 Savannah River Site workers was compromised last month. “Initial indications are that this disclosure was not the…
Xbox Entertainment Awards blighted by security breach
Ben Parfitt reports: Microsoft has this morning been hit by a security breach of its Xbox Entertainment Awards 2013 service. MCV was contacted by a reader with a link to a page that appeared to list all those who had voted and therefore been entered into the prize draw. The data included names, gamertags, emails…
Anonymous hacktivist launch OpVaticano, data leaked and sites defaced
We all know the recent news that the new pope has finally been appointed his official position, well this has sparked a newly launched operation dubbed [Opvaticano](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opvaticano&src=typd) by anonymous hacktivist. The hacktivist have so far left many sites defaced and dumped one database from Italian based websites. The defacement has been carried out on four sites so far some…
Data breaches in higher education
TeamSHATTER reports on data breaches in the higher education vertical throughout the United States. The past year has seen a substantial uptick in the amount of total records breached. In 2012, there was a dramatic increase in the total number of reported records affected (1,977,412), but a relatively low amount of institutions (51) that reported…
Article: How Bad is it? – A Branching Activity Model to Estimate the Impact of Information Security Breaches
Russell Cameron Thomas George Mason University – Department of Computational Social Science Marcin Antkiewicz Qualys, Inc. Patrick Florer Risk Centric Security, Inc. Suzanne Widup Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon RISK Team Matthew Woodyard Zions Bancorporation March 11, 2013 Abstract: This paper proposes an analysis framework and model for estimating the impact of information security breach episodes….