So yesterday afternoon, Twitter exploded as word spread that Marcus Hutchins, aka @MalwareTechBlog, had been arrested as he attempted to board a flight back to the U.K. Hutchins, who became an “accidental hero” in stopping the spread of WannaCry, was accused of creating and conspiring with another unnamed defendant in the matter of the Kronos…
Month: August 2017
Protenus Mid-Year Breach Barometer report on health data breaches is out
Protenus, in collaboration with DataBreaches.net, has released its Breach Barometer Mid-Year Review of breaches involving health data. You can access their free report here (pdf). Heather Landi of Healthcare Informatics also has a good write-up of the webinar we held this week to discuss the report. I’ll have more to say on the report –…
Abhinav Shrivastava, an IIT graduate who is currently working at Ola, has been arrested by the Bengaluru police for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database.
FirstPost reports: Abhinav Shrivastava, an IIT graduate who is currently working at Ola, has been arrested by the Bengaluru police for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database. A complaint filed by the UIDAI on 26 July alleges that Shrivastava accessed the database “without authorisation between 1 January and 26 July”, reports The Indian Express. Shrivastava and a…
Department of Justice Releases Guidance for Vulnerability Disclosure Programs
Jennifer Martin, Ashden Fein and Weiss Nusraty write: Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a voluntary frameworkfor organizations to use in the development of a formal program to receive reports of network, software, and system vulnerabilities, and to disclose vulnerabilities identified in other organizations’ environments. This framework provides private entities a series…
UK: Patients’ records stolen from Walsall health worker’s car
Mike Woods reports: Patients’ personal therapy records were stolen from the car of a member of staff at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. The trust has admitted that therapy records of 41 patients and keys were stolen from the boot of a car in June and said it needs to ‘strengthen the processes for transporting patient…
Data Breach as Office 365 Admin Center Displays Usage Data from Other Tenants
Tony Redmond reports: The danger of making mistakes when changing cloud systems that run at massive scale was demonstrated on Thursday evening (August 3) when the Office 365 Admin Center suddenly started to reveal usage data belonging to other tenants. Reports flooded in from administrators who noticed that the reported email and SharePoint usage for…