Hillary Borrud reports: Three years after state auditors identified security weaknesses at Oregon’s main data center in Salem, the state has yet to fix some of the problems. The vulnerabilities were outlined in a secret March 2012 letter to Michael Jordan, who, at the time, was director of the Department of Administrative Services, which manages…
Month: April 2015
Judge sentences foreign hacker for first time ever in US
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: David Pokora, 22, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. […] The group was responsible for stealing over $100 million worth of intellectual property from major technology companies, including Microsoft,…
IE: Photocopies of college students’ passports left in a skip on busy street
TheJournal.ie reports: Photocopies of sensitive information belonging to students were left in a skip bag outside a Dublin college. The bag was left outside the Dublin College for Advanced Studies (DCAS), a private college on Dublin’s Capel Street. Speaking to TheJournal.ie this evening, John Ryan, the director of studies at DCAS said that the files had been left…
Banks seek to block Target’s deal with MasterCard over data breach
Reuters reports: A group of small banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its massive data breach in 2013 are moving to block the retailer’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc, calling it a “sweetheart deal” aimed at undercutting their own claims for losses. Lawyers for plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks class-action…
Ca: Fifth prosecution under Health Information Act
It never rains, but it pours? Now there’s a second press release from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has resulted in one charge being laid against an individual under the Health Information Act (HIA). The OIPC conducted an investigation following a report…
The long road to catching “Bitcoin Baron,” the “Internet’s most inept criminal”
Jack Smith IV has a piece on Randall Charles Tucker (a/k/a “Bitcoin Baron”), who was recently arrested. Smith’s piece includes a recap of some of Tucker’s attacks on sites, but also includes chat transcripts that give insight into his thinking and behavior. The Observer article will be of interest to those interested in the motivation and…