Jennifer Squires reports: Burglars stole a client records, a suitcase and two bags of cookies from a medicinal marijuana referral office on the 500 block of River Street late Monday or early Tuesday, Santa Cruz police reported. Safe Harbor Med Evaluations staff reported the theft around noon Tuesday. Burglars stole a computer hard drive that…
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Digital River sues over data breach
Dan Browning reports: A massive data theft from the e-commerce company Digital River Inc. has led investigators to hackers in India and a 20-year-old in New York who allegedly tried to sell the information to a Colorado marketing firm for half a million dollars. The Eden Prairie company obtained a secret court order last month…
Kobil smartcard reader hacked
A vulnerability in smartcard readers made by vendor Kobil allows intruders to install specially crafted firmware without opening the sealed housing. Attackers could exploit this to read PINs such as those used for digital document signatures or to display forged data on-screen. To prevent such intrusions from happening, smartcard readers are usually subjected to a…
Facebook dev move won’t stop rogue apps, say researchers
Gregg Keizer reports: Security researchers today said Facebook’s new requirement that developers link legitimate accounts to their software won’t stop rogue applications from infecting its users with adware. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it will now demand that developers verify a Facebook account to create new apps on the service. “We’re taking this step to…
NL: Sensitive DoJ data published
From Karin Spaink‘s blog: Various web sites have published ‘documents containing sensitive data’ from the Department of Justice’s national penitentiary task force (Landelijke Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid), who are called in when there are problems in jails. The nature and the scope of the leak is unclear, but it seems that the documents contain information about the…
UK: Call for ban on physical transfer of digital files
Andrew Charlesworth reports: A complete ban on using physical media to transfer digital files has been called for in a recent report, which found that nearly one in five companies is still using couriers such as the postal system to send media containing large or sensitive files. This is despite the well-publicised data breach caused…