A former LV= employee offered an ex-colleague £3,000 a month to send him the details of customers involved in road accidents. David Lewis, of Durlston Road in Swanage, used messaging service Whatsapp to contact Jacqueline Carter after he left the Poole-based business in 2014. However, Ms Carter warned Lewis that she wasn’t a “******* idiot” after he asked…
Month: April 2016
Security flaws found in 3 state health insurance websites
AP reports: Federal investigators found significant cybersecurity weaknesses in the health insurance websites of California, Kentucky and Vermont that could enable hackers to get their hands on sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of people, The Associated Press has learned. And some of those flaws have yet to be fixed. Read more on Midland…
TX: Ransomware attacks 20 Northeast ISD schools
KENS reports: The Northeast Independent School District says it’s been hit by the latest craze in computer viruses known as ransomware. It is a type of malware or virus that limits users from accessing parts of their system, typically forcing the victim to pay some type of ransom in order to get their data back….
MedStar: Ransomware success wasn’t IT department’s fault
Sean Gallagher reports that MedStar is firmly denying others’ reporting about their recent ransomware attack: Tami Abdollah of the Associated Press reported Tuesday that an anonymous source “familiar with the investigation” of the cyberattack claimed that the flaws that allowed attackers to compromise a JBoss Web application server and attack the network with Samsam crypto-ransomware had…
UK: Babyfaced teen designed programs which helped attackers crash 224,000 websites worldwide
But it’s not like he’s a hacker – he only did it for the money. Jane Tyler reports that Grant Manser created the damaging “stresser” software from his bedroom and sold it on the ‘dark web’ to customers around the globe for as little as £4.99. He was 16 at the time he started in…
RESOURCE: State Security Breach Notification Laws
Mintz Levin has updated its convenient chart of state breach notification laws. Read more here. I’ve already downloaded my copy of their updated chart to keep on my desktop.