Steve Bellovin explains: Another day, another data breach, and another round of calls for companies to encrypt their databases. Cryptography is a powerful tool, but in cases like this, it’s not going to help. If your OS is secure, you don’t need the crypto; if it’s not, the crypto won’t protect your data. In a case…
Month: February 2015
HK: Inspector faces cop data theft, child porn raps
The Standard reports: A police inspector has appeared in Eastern Court charged with accessing a computer with dishonest intent, to get the personal details of officers. Sze Hang, 29, is also charged with possession of child pornography. He is accused of posting the personal data of fellow officers online, allegedly to help people identify them…
Illinois AG Madigan: Federal data breach law should not weaken states’ consumer protections
Following what has been termed “The Year of the Data Breach,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan today testified before the U.S. Senate, calling on Congress to enact a strong, meaningful federal data breach notification law that provides greater transparency for data breach victims and regulators to better understand what information was compromised in a breach, how…
UK: Theft of laptops containing data about victims of child sexual exploitation ‘covered up’
ITV reports: Rotherham Council covered up the loss of personal data on computers which contained information about the victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) when 21 laptops were stolen, according to the Casey Report. Louise Casey’s report found that 21 laptops were stolen from the council’s Norfolk House building in October 2011. Today’s report said…
NYC: Dental Receptionist Accused of Stealing Personal Identifying Information of More Than 250 Patients
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of five individuals – DEVIN BAZILE, 30, SHARNIQKWA DUKES, 24, AHMEEN EVANS, 26, JOSHUA HAUGHTON, 28, and ANNIE VUONG, 27 – for using the stolen personal identifying information of approximately 200 victims to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Barclaycard. Following a two-and-a-half-year-long…
Anthem Attack Investigators See Signs of Chinese Hackers
And so it begins.