The more that comes out, the worse this sounds. Now it’s seven banks and it sounds like the hackers were able to burrow in deep. Matt Egan, Jose Pagliery and Evan Perez report: The FBI is investigating hacking attacks on 7 of the top 15 banks, including one against JPMorgan Chase, according to someone with…
Month: August 2014
Oops! Mozilla left thousands of email addresses and passwords lying around (again)
Graham Cluley reports: At the beginning of August members of the Mozilla developer community were warned that approximately 76,000 email addresses and 4,000 encrypted passwords had been left on a publicly accessible server for 30 days. For most organisations, that would be embarrassing enough. But security screw-ups can be like buses, you can wait for ages noticing…
NIH Releases Final Genomic Data Sharing Policy
Greg Slabodkin reports: The National Institutes of Health has released a final genomic data sharing policy that promotes sharing of large-scale human and non-human genomic data generated from NIH-funded research. “The NIH has longstanding policies to make a broad range of research data, in addition to genomic data, publicly available in a timely manner from…
Dairy Queen joins list of retailers hit by hacker attack
Mike Hughlett provides an update: Dairy Queen has become the latest victim of computer hackers bent on pilfering customers’ credit and debit card information. The Edina-based ice cream and fast-food chain confirmed Wednesday that “customer data at a limited number of stores may be at risk.” The company didn’t disclose how many customers or how…
Texas Demands Medical Records From Xerox (updated to include Xerox response)
From Courthouse News: Texas has sued fired Medicaid claims administrator Xerox for the second time in four months, claiming its failure to return client medical records exposes the state to massive federal fines for violations of privacy. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission sued Xerox State Healthcare in Travis County Court on Tuesday. The…
FTC responds to LabMD's motion for sanctions in FTC v. LabMD
The FTC’s response to LabMD’s motion for sanctions (pdf) is now available online. FTC’s response begins: Respondent’s Motion, which exceeds the applicable word limit and regarding which counsel never met-and-conferred with Complaint Counsel, seeks relief that the Commission’s Rules do not authorize. If there were a legal basis for Respondent’s relief, its baseless claims regarding Complaint Counsel’s evidence ignores its own…