From Representative Mary Bono Mack: Responding to concerns over recent cyber attacks and other data breaches, Rep. Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) has introduced legislation to ensure American consumers are appropriately protected from data theft. H.R. 2577, the Secure and Fortify Electronic (SAFE) Data Act, requires reasonable security policies and procedures to protect personal information, and…
Author: Dissent
Editorial: Missing records case reveals vulnerabilities
From an editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal: The mysterious case of the missing medical records apparently has been solved, though we think it took Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center too long — six weeks — to disclose its findings. And since this most recent case is the second time in less than two years that medical records…
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust signs undertaking
There was no press release or fanfare, but the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office web site indicates that Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has signed an undertaking with the ICO over the loss of an individual’s medical records. According to the undertaking: The personal data was recognised as missing when the data controller received a subject…
New ACH Fraud Suit Filed
Tracey Kitten reports: A March 2010 incident of corporate account takeover has led to yet another legal dispute between a commercial customer and its former bank. [See the complaint.] California-based Village View Escrow Inc. on June 27 filed a complaint with the California Superior Court, Los Angeles, against Professional Business Bank, claiming the bank is liable for the $465,000 financial…
LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice
Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…
Ru: Megafon screws up and users’ SMS messages get indexed by a search engine
Eugene Kapersky writes: One of the biggest Russian mobile operators Megafon with 57+ million user base leaked the users’ SMS history. Thousands of messages are now available online that caused a major nation-wide scandal. There is another company that may have been involved in the issue – Yandex, the biggest national search engine that could have indexed either some classified storage or SMS…