Kyle Barnett reports on another lawsuit claiming a former employee stole proprietary information: A financial services company is suing a former employee it claims breached a non-compete clause by stealing client lists and targeting clients after he joined a similar firm. Business Capital Risk Control Services LLC filed suit against Carlos Avila Martinez in the…
Month: September 2015
Hackers Trick ISIS Agents Into Giving Their Phone Numbers and Home Addresses
Joshua Phillipp reports: Hackers released a list showing the phone numbers and home addresses of nine alleged ISIS recruiters, in countries including Turkey, Indonesia, Kuwait, and Iraq. Alongside this, one of the hackers behind the leak detailed how the terrorist organization recruits members using the Internet. According to the hacker, who goes by the moniker…
AU: Penrith High School students disciplined over HSC computer hacking claims
Megan Levy reports: Students at a selective high school in Sydney’s west have been disciplined after hacking into a computer system, allegedly in an attempt to change their HSC assessment marks. Up to 10 Year 12 students at Penrith High School have reportedly been questioned over the security breach, which the NSW Department of Education said occurred when students obtained…
In: Bank alleges theft of proprietary data by former employee
V. Narayan reports on an incident in Mumbai: A case of data theft has been registered against a former senior vice-president of a multi-national bank in the city. The alleged crime was committed before she quit on April 21 and was revealed when the bank’s technical team received a system alert after she extracted confidential data…
DoD Issues Interim Rule For Contractors on Incident Reporting and Cloud Computing Services
Joe Lazzarotti writes: Government contractors have a wide range of unique challenges (find out more about these here), not the least of which is data security. A good example is the interim rule the Department of Defense (DoD) issued last month that implements sections of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2013 and…
Ex-president of GOP media company gets probation, fine for hacking
Randy Ludlow reports: The former president of a prominent Republican political-advertising firm received no prison time on Wednesday for three charges stemming from his dismissal. Nicholas P. Everhart, formerly of Strategy Group for Media, was fined $2,800 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David Gormley. He…