Associated Press reports: Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons. Federal law bans certain mentally ill people from purchasing firearms, but not all states are providing data to stop…
Month: April 2013
Anonymous continues attacks on North Korea for #OpNorthKorea
In recent weeks there have been many on going operations and one of them is OpNorthKorea. The operation has so far seen many websites hacked and left defaced, offline as well as social media accounts being taken control of all while making main headlines around the world. In recent days the operation has continued to…
Eight years of data breaches in higher education
Courtesy of Open-Site.org, used under Creative Commons License: Click on image for larger version. For more breaches from the education sector, including k-12 breaches, see DataLossDB.org.
Bank Sues Cyberheist Victim to Recover Funds
Brian Krebs reports on a lawsuit where Park Sterling Bank (PSB) in Charlotte, North Carolina is suing a former client, Wallace & Pittman PLLC , after the latter was the victim of a fraudulent wire transfer. The breach occurred after a key logger was installed on its system via a phishing attempt and criminals obtained…
Research reveals damage that privacy breaches can cause
One of the concerns I’ve repeatedly expressed about surveys about churn and reactions to breaches is that they tend to ask people what they think consumers do, and not what they actually have done. Now we have a bit more actual data on churn from a new report based on interviews with over 750 Internet…
This week’s e-mail gaffe
This week’s e-mail gaffe involves a law firm in the U.K.: A member of Addleshaw Goddard‘s HR team has mistakenly emailed every trainee’s performance ratings to the entire firm. A junior member of the team sent details of the upcoming trainee seat moves to the firm. But the hapless HR staffer also managed to attach to the…