Evan Brown discusses an interesting court case, Hardin v. PDX, Inc.,: Cases dealing with the Communications Decency Act often involve websites. See, for example, the recent decision from the Sixth Circuit involving thedirty.com, and earlier cases about Roommates.com and Amazon. But this case considered a sort of unique suggested application of Section 230 immunity. The question was whether a provider…
Month: June 2014
Ca: Surrey school district accidentally emails out student information
Christopher Poon reports: The Surrey school district is apologizing to parents and students after the personal information of about 250 students was mistakenly sent out as part of a school’s online newsletter. According to district spokesman Doug Strachan, a staff member at a Surrey school was sending out a letter to parents from the…
Ca: Rouge Valley faces $400M class-action lawsuit over privacy breach
Joel Eastwood reports: A $412-million class action lawsuit has been brought against a Scarborough hospital on behalf of thousands of patients whose personal information was leaked by two former employees. The hospital revealed earlier this month that the contact information of as many as 8,300 patients at Rouge Valley Centenary, mainly mothers who gave birth…
Hospital Networks Are Leaking Data, Leaving Critical Devices Vulnerable
Kim Zetter reports: Two researchers examining the security of hospital networks have found many of them leak valuable information to the internet, leaving critical systems and equipment vulnerable to hacking. The data, which in some cases enumerates every computer and device on a hospital’s internal network, would allow hackers to easily locate and map systems…
European bank ‘hit by sophisticated cyber-thefts’
BBC reports: Kaspersky Lab said it had detected a computer server in January being used to co-ordinate an attack that appeared to have snatched more than 500,000 euros ($700,000; £400,000) over the course of a single week. The firm said it believed most of the victims were based in Italy and Turkey. It said that it had…
AU: Police make state’s first bitcoin arrest in League of Legends hack
Kristian Silva reports: Queensland Police have made what is believed to be the state’s first bitcoin-related arrest. Police say about $110,000 worth of the digital currency was in the possession of Kingaroy man Shane Duffy, who is accused of hacking a US-based gaming network and selling player information to the highest bidder. […] Police allege…