Nicole Perlroth reports: … Until last year, Dr. Shrobe was a manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as Darpa, overseeing the agency’s Clean Slate program, a multiproject “Do Over” for the computer security industry. The program included two separate but related projects. Their premise was to reconsider computing from the ground up…
Month: December 2014
I think we’re running out of hashtags for how bad the Sony #databreach was (Update1)
It just gets more and more embarrassing for Sony. Here are just a few stories from today’s news: It Gets Worse: The Newest Sony Data Breach Exposes Thousands Of Passwords Sony Pictures hackers stole 47,000 social security numbers, including Sly Stallone’s SONY PICTURES HACK SPREADS TO DELOITTE: THOUSANDS OF AUDIT FIRM’S SALARIES ARE LEAKED Let the Congressional hearings…
Over 30,0000 Deloitte employees’ salary info possibly stolen from Sony because former Deloitte employee had saved some files?
Oi veh. Kevin Roose reports: Along with the files smuggled out of Sony Pictures this week, we also discovered a cache of documents apparently relating to internal personnel matters at Deloitte. This appears to be an accident of circumstance. The files appear to come from a single target’s computer. While this person appears to be…
Update and Correction: Valve not hacked
In another post on this site, we cited statements by SLC Security that Valve had allegedly been owned. SLC has since corrected their post with the following statement: FRAUD ALERT: Domain’s (sic) posing as Valve Corp (Russian) UPDATE: We were contacted by the hosting provider Akamai and advised that the domain in the capture below…
Ca: Peterborough hospital privacy breach heading back to court
Sarah Frank reports: The number of breached patient medical records in Ontario continues to climb as a case involving the Peterborough Regional Health Centre is set to go to a Toronto Court of Appeal later this month. Among a number of hospitals who’ve discovered breaches in the past couple years, Peterborough’s will be the first…
FL: Principal in $28.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
This case involved medical identity theft. A Florida owner and operator of multiple physical therapy rehabilitation facilities was sentenced in federal court in Tampa this week to serve 11 years in prison for his role in organizing a $28.3 million Medicare fraud scheme involving physical and occupational therapy services. Luis Duluc, 54, of Tampa, pleaded guilty…