Jonathan Mayer writes: I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance. In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues. Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses. If…
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And we’re off and running.
Class Action Suit Filed Against Home Depot For Consumer Data Security Breach (press release)
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.
Computers for Hire Said to Send JPMorgan Data to Russia
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s own investigators have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire by sophisticated criminals was used to reroute data stolen from the bank to a major Russian city, according to people familiar with the probe. Like street magicians using sleight of…
Target Wants Banks’ Claims Tossed In Data Breach MDL
This is where lawyers earn their keep: Target Corp. urged a Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday to toss a consolidated class action over the company’s massive data breach, arguing that the bank plaintiffs cannot claim negligence because they do not have a direct relationship with Target. Target argues that under state law, merchants aren’t liable…
Update: Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit – Krebs
Brian Krebs reports: New data gathered from the cybercrime underground suggests that the apparent credit and debit card breach at Home Depot involves nearly all of the company’s stores across the nation. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.