Louise Dickson and Lindsay Kines report: In the wake of a privacy breach at the B.C. Pension Corporation, B.C.’s privacy commissioner is once again calling on the provincial government to compel public and private bodies to report privacy breaches to his office within days of discovery. Michael McEvoy said the case clearly demonstrates why B.C….
Month: April 2019
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Rips Into Equifax Over Its Massive 2017 Data Breach.
So the Congressional report on Equifax’s massive 2017 databreach was released. The title gives you a clue as to what you can expect to read in it: HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH STAFF REPORT PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE The report is 71 pages, and the following is…
Hacker Claims They Breached Israel’s Voter Registry Three Days Before Election
Refaella Goichman reports: A hacker claimed Saturday evening that they broke into Israel’s voter registry and stole information on six million Israelis, only three days before Tuesday’s Knesset election. The hacker, known as DarkCoder, tweeted that as part of the annual OpIsrael cyberattack against Israel’s digital infrastructure, they have successfully hacked the voter database. But…
Still not fixed: Ransomware attack in Genesee County will hamper some county business again Monday
ABC12 reports that Genesee County has not fully restored functionality following a ransomware attack. The county is now saying business will not return to normal by Monday like they had hoped. The county has made progress since discovering the attack Tuesday. At least now e-mail services have been restored, but now the county says because…
CT-GAN: Malicious Tampering of 3D Medical Imagery using Deep Learning
The following is the abstract of a research report that I saw at https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03597. CT-GAN: Malicious Tampering of 3D Medical Imagery using Deep Learning Yisroel Mirsky, Tom Mahler, Ilan Shelef, and Yuval Elovici (Submitted on 11 Jan 2019 (v1), last revised 3 Apr 2019 (this version, v2)) In 2018, clinics and hospitals were hit with…
UK: Law Firm Launches $6.5 Million Action Against Ticketmaster Over Data Breach
Richard Smirke reports: A British law firm has launched a £5 million ($6.5 million) legal action against Ticketmaster following last year’s security breach, which is believed to have affected up to 40,000 U.K. customers. […] The U.K. arm of Ticketmaster detected a major security breach on June 23, 2018 when it identified malicious software on…