David Harper reports: A former McDonald’s employee pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a conspiracy in which account numbers were stolen from diners’ credit and debit cards, telling the court that the crimes started when a drive-through customer asked if he wanted to make some extra money. Herbert Orin Johns Jr., 22, also pleaded…
Author: Dissent
Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
Embedded in revisions to a proposed cybersecurity law are some provisions on mandatory breach notification. Richard Lardner reports: The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is adding a provision to cybersecurity legislation that would strengthen the reporting requirement. The SEC’s cybersecurity guidance issued in October is not mandatory. It was…
Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again
Ingrid Lunden reports: A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon’s email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon’s site. We’ve been alerted that is still happening, with about 170 emails coming up when we searched (last time around it was less than 80)….
Ca: District of Squamish breach admitted
Rebecca Aldous reports: District of Squamish officials last year accidentally posted bylaw infraction information on the district’s website that should have remained private. The privacy breach happened for approximately a month in January 2011. At the time, the public was able to access mostly unidentifiable bylaw complaint attachments, said Robin Arthurs, the municipality’s general manager…
AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy
Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…
UK: Privacy glitch forces porn filtering consultation offline
Stewart Mitchell reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into complaints over a privacy breach on the consultation on web porn blocking launched yesterday on the Department of Education’s website. The department’s entire consultation page is currently down, cutting into the ten-week window for posting opinions on whether adult sites should be filtered by default….