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: U.S.
State Department shuts down email system after suspected hacker attack
Matthew Lee of AP reports: The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A senior department official said Sunday that “activity of concern” was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident…
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…
FL: Nova Southeastern University law students’ data hacked in spring 2013
Through their lawyers, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Texas notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they learned of a data security incident that involved potential access to a server that contained former law students’ personal information, including names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, NSU identification numbers, and Social Security…
Easter Seals of New Hampshire employees find their direct deposits re-routed after falling for phishing scam
If seven of your employees fell for a phishing scam, I’d say that’s pretty compelling evidence that you need to do more training of your employees, wouldn’t you?