Steve Ragan reports that Bitdefender has figured out how to decrypt files and backups encrypted by Linux.Encoder.1, the latest ransomware causing havoc for sites. …. Exploiting this fundamental weakness, Bitdefender released a tool that will automatically decrypt any files on a victim’s system that were targeted. The tool and instructions are available on Bitdefender’s post, the…
Month: November 2015
IL: Man Pleads Guilty To Illegally Accessing Computer At MCC
CBS Chicago reports: A former religious services assistant at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown pleaded guilty Monday to illegally accessing government computers to get personal information about inmates. Tommy Haire, 34, searched the MCC’s computer system without authorization to get sensitive personal information about prisoners in other facilities, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office….
Standing in Data Breach Cases: A Review of Recent Trends
Robert D. Fram, Simon J. Frankel and Amanda C. Lynch of Covington & Burling write: For most substantial companies, it is said, experiencing a data breach is not a matter of “if,” but “when.” Particularly when a company is consumer-facing, any publicized data breach is likely to be followed by consumer class action lawsuits. For…
A Closer Look at CISA’s Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Provisions
David Fagan, Ashden Fein and David Bender write: As we reported on October 27, the U.S. Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (“CISA,” S. 754). If enacted into law, CISA would, among other things, establish a voluntary framework for the sharing of cybersecurity threat information between and among the federal government and private entities. CISA must…
ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Alexander J. Martin reports: Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what it claims is a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems. Switzerland-based ProtonMail offers an encrypted webmail system able to…
Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale
Steve Ragan reports: Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods. The post in question offered a list of 590,000 Comcast email addresses and corresponding passwords. As proof, the seller offered a brief list of 112…