Cory Shaffer reports: The vendor that runs the parking garage under Cleveland City Hall confirmed a data breach in late October potentially compromised sensitive information of hundreds of people who park in the garage. Ken Russo, director of support services for Datapark, confirmed in a city-issued statement that the company’s financial security system had been breached,…
Category: Business Sector
Vodacom exposed some subscriber details after software update; issue fixed
On October 27, Business Tech reported: Vodacom is providing information which uniquely identifies you as a subscriber to websites you visit while on its data network. This was revealed by an online tool created by security researcher, Kenneth White. Among the data, Vodacom subscribers are inadvertently providing to web servers their phone number and a…
USIS’s late notification? (updated)
Readers may recall that US Investigations Services, LLC, the contractor who conducted personnel background checks for the Department of Homeland Security, detected a hack in June. The breach affected 27,000 DHS employees. For some reason, USIS is now first sending a copy of a notification letter to the California Attorney General’s web site and to the New…
McDonald’s worker caught skimming
WSB-TV reports that an alert customer in Roswell caught a McDonald’s worker skimming her card. Nice point about watching and staying alert when you hand someone your card.
Pirate Bay Founder Convicted on Hacking Charges; Sentenced to 3.5 Years
Following up on a news story posted yesterday: Over on Wired, Kim Zetter has additional details on the trial and conviction of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg.
Retailers accuse credit unions of talking smack about card breaches
Sean Gallagher reports: Reeling from the bad press associated with an ongoing parade of data breaches caused by criminal infiltration of their payment systems, representatives of six retail industry associations signed a joint open letter that pushes back against a vocal critic of retailers’ cyber-security practices—credit union associations. In the letter addressed to the presidents of…