Christopher Zinsli reports: A security breach this month at ReachLocal Inc. is bad timing for the online advertising agency. The venture-backed company is in IPO registration, so it was required to disclose in an amended S-1 filing Tuesday that a recent breach disrupted its customers’ advertising campaigns and resulted in its Australia platform going offline…
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Knesset online security lapse exposes secret Mossad data
Amos Harel and Jonathan Lis report: The Knesset Web site committed a major security lapse several weeks ago by publicizing the names of high-level Mossad and Shin Bet officials whose identities are kept secret by law. Read more on Haaretz.com. It seems that this isn’t the first time the Knesset web site has exposed sensitive…
Oklahoma legislature overrides veto on abortion laws (updated)
Lisa Flam reports: Oklahoma has two new abortion laws today, one said to be among the toughest in the nation because it requires a woman to have an ultrasound — with the monitor in her view — and to hear a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion. The other law forbids women…
First-Ever Global Cost of a Data Breach Study Shows Organisations Paid USD3.43 million per Breach in 2009
Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute, together with PGP Corporation, a global leader in trusted data protection, today announced the results of the first-ever global study into the costs incurred by organisations after experiencing a data breach. The 2009 Annual Study: Global Cost of a Data Breach report, compiled by The Ponemon Institute…
(follow-up) Childs found guilty in SF network password case
Robert McMillan reports: Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Childs now faces a maximum of five years in prison after jurors determined that he had violated California’s computer crime law…
Swiss mull lawsuit against Germany over bank data
Switzerland is still considering whether to take Germany to court over the purchase of stolen bank data the country is using to root out tax dodgers, Swiss President Doris Leuthard said on Wednesday. “The government has not yet decided,” Leuthard told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Some…