Craig Timberg reports: Hackers broke into The Washington Post’s servers and gained access to employee user names and passwords, marking at least the third intrusion over the past three years, company officials said Wednesday. The extent of the loss of company data was not immediately clear, although officials planned to ask all employees to change their user…
Month: December 2013
Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach (update 1)
Brian Krebs has the scoop on what sounds like another major data breach – again: Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 —…
New Android Malware Disguises Itself as a Settings App, Steals SMS Messages
Vinay Pidathala, Hitesh Dharmdasani, Jinjian Zhai and Zheng Bu write: FireEye has uncovered and helped weaken one of the largest advanced mobile botnets to date. The botnet, which we are dubbing “MisoSMS,” has been used in at least 64 spyware campaigns, stealing text messages and emailing them to cybercriminals in China. MisoSMS infects Android systems…
There are lessons to be learned from the Maricopa County Community Colleges breach. Learn them, dammit.
I generally do not write “lessons learned from [X breach] ” posts, because I seriously doubt people have really learned anything. Instead of headlines like “Lessons learned from…,” what we should be writing is, “If you don’t learn from this, then you’re an idiot and should never be allowed near consumers’ personal information.” In any…
iPharmacy app gets negative review from Appthority (updated to reflect problems addressed)
Update of February 2014: The developers took the negative review seriously and fixed the problems, appthority reports, here. Original post: Appthority has posted its review of iPharmacy Drug Guide and Pill ID, which they note has been downloaded over 1,000,000 times from Google Play. From their review: Appthority Trust Score: 60 (out of 100 possible)/policy enforced…
Calgary pharmacist used private health information to hit on patient: report
The Canadian Press reports: Alberta’s privacy commissioner has sharp words for a pharmacist who used a patient’s information to try to build a relationship with her on Facebook. Commissioner Jill Clayton says the Calgary pharmacist misused health information for personal purposes when he called the woman twice in 2012 after she filled prescriptions with him,…