If you’re going to hire a firm for SEO optimization or to help with negative reports about your firm, I hope you hire a good one. From my inbox (you may have to read it more than once to really get the full flavor): From: “Link Removal” <[email protected]> Subject: Action Required: Penalized Google Domain Date: Sun, November 16,…
Category: Business Sector
Belgian activist files complaint with Belgian Privacy Commissioner over hack
This Belgian blog is really going after Mensura over the recent Rex Mundi hack, reported on this site. The blogger raises a number of good points, including the concern about Belgians providing their national registration numbers to web sites and the fact that so much medical information on named individuals has now been exposed. You…
Bits ‘n pieces
Add Alliance Workplace Solutions to the too-long list of companies who have reported laptops with personal information stolen from an employee’s car. Anderson & Murison report that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of propsective insureds were exposed online between June 2014 and July 18th due to the installation of an additional firewall (ironic,…
Former Eaton Corp. Employee Indicted For Installing Malware
A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent…
Westlaw discloses breach of public records database
West Publishing Corporation, a unit of Thomson Reuters, has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving their Westlaw subscription-only public records database. In a letter dated November 4th to those affected, Senior Vice President Andy Martens explained that on October 14, they detected unusual search activity. Investigation revealed that some subscribers’…
Yet another Experian breach
Oh, look. Yet another Experian breach. On November 3, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Merchants Capital Access‘s login credentials to Experian’s credit-reporting database had been misused by an unknown party. Two New Hampshire residents were notified of the breach that occurred between October 20 and October 21. The total number affected was not…