Katharine Goodloe writes: As policymakers weigh the many policy implications associated with the Internet of Things (“IoT”), U.S. lawmakers have put forward a variety of proposals for studying—and regulating—IoT devices. Although the likelihood of current proposals becoming law this term remain uncertain at best, existing legislative proposals provide important context and insight into the ways…
Month: May 2018
Romanian Computer Hacker Sentenced to One Year in Federal Prison for Staging Denial of Service Attacks on ‘World of Warcraft’ Servers
May 7 – A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the European servers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft was sentenced today to one year in federal prison. Calin Mateias, 38, of Romania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis…
Delhi High Court Declines To Interfere With Arrest Of Suspected ‘Pro-Pak’ Kashmiri Hacker
Mid-day reports: The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with the arrest of a suspected “pro-Pakistan” Kashmiri hacker, who is alleged to have hacked over 500 Indian websites and was in touch with several Pak-based anti-Indian hackers. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta said it was of the prima facie…
Ph: Privacy commission orders Jollibee to suspend online delivery services over data breach
Ted Cordero reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Tuesday ordered fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. to suspend its online delivery platform indefinitely due to a data breach reported by the company in December last year. The NPC ordered Jollibee to suspend the operations jollibeedelivery.com and all other data processing open to the public through…
Remember your baby’s newborn pictures? They may still be online.
UPDATED April 23, 2021: Apparently people find this news article in Google search results and then contact me via email or phone to ask about getting their newborn’s photos. This is a news article written in 2018. Neither I nor DataBreaches.net have your baby’s photos. Do not call me or email about them as I…
Equifax lets identity thieves raid “frozen” credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau
Remember all that advice that I and Brian Krebs tend to give consumers about putting “freezes” on your credit reports instead of “alerts?” The freezes are supposed to prevent entities from opening up any new lines of credit or accounts in your name. They are supposed to prevent problems instead of just detecting problems after…