Roy Wenzl reports: Kevin Steinmetz, a criminologist at Kansas State University, has studied and met a lot of hackers and he sees value in them. Hacker culture is far more diverse, more interesting, more valuable and more sophisticated than most of us realize, he said. […] His latest work, “An Ethnographic Study of Hacking,” has…
Month: February 2015
Ca: Cyberattack at NRC occurred weeks before alert sent out
Susan Lunn reports: The federal government was aware a hacker had stolen secret information from the National Research Council last summer for at least three weeks before it notified stakeholders, employees and the public. That warning went out on July 29, 2014, a day after news of the hacking incident first broke in the news media….
Ca: Data breach findings in limbo since 2012, legislature hears
Cindy E. Harnett reports: More than two years after the B.C. government said it was forwarding the findings of its 2012 Health Ministry privacy breach investigation to the RCMP, the police said they had yet to receive it. An RCMP officer in the federal serious and organized crime unit asked the B.C. government in November when…
Chesapeake Sues McClendon, Alleging Theft Of ‘Trade Secrets’
Christopher Helman reported: Today Chesapeake Energy sued American Energy Partners, the new company created by its embattled former CEO Aubrey McClendon. The complaint, filed in Oklahoma County District Court, alleges that in his waning days as CEO of Chesapeake, McClendon squirreled away massive amounts of data, containing “highly sensitive trade secrets.” After his departure from…
Say What? Required contents of notice in data breach notifications
Fer O’Neil did some comparisons of state laws on the content of notices. His write-up of what he found is well worth reading. Here’s a snippet from it: The first metric I looked at was the number of states and territories that had some required content of notice. I was a little surprised that 63% (31…
Lone Star Circle of Care notifies 8,700 after learning of web exposure of PHI by contractor
Mary Ann Roser reports: A data breach at Lone Star Circle of Care has compromised the personal information of 8,700 people, including 6,300 patients, officials said Friday. The breach was discovered Jan. 9 after a backup file containing mostly names, addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases, birth dates, was improperly placed on Lone Star’s…