Karen Gilchrist reports: The data analytics firm employed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign team has hit back at allegations that it may have breached data protection rights during the U.K.’s EU referendum. Cambridge Analytica came under fire over the weekend after it was cited at the center of a probe by the U.K.’s data privacy watchdog…
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Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
Sometimes you just have to grin when the bad guys screw up, misconfigure their backup, and expose their entire operation to the world. This is one of those times. Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper Security Research team and Steve Ragan of Salted Hash have the mega leak of the year. Steve writes: This is the story…
Mossack Fonseca founders still under arrest as Panama Papers firm quits New Zealand
I haven’t provided any updates on this in a while, but Neil Camilleri provides a good update to events in the Panama Papers case on The Malta Independent. Did you know that Mossack and Fonseca had been arrested three weeks ago? The arrests, in Panama City, were linked to Brazil’s so-called ‘Operation Car Wash’ which exposed massive…
Hackers attack Pa. Senate Democrats’ computer system with Ransomware
Jan Murphy reports: A cyberattack forced the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus to shutdown its computer system on Friday, according to a statement from the caucus’ leader Sen. Jay Costa. The Ransomware attack, discovered early Friday morning, delivered malware to computers throughout the network, making its systems and data inaccessible to caucus members and employees throughout…
Hundreds of Lowe’s customers’ personal information compromised
Paul Boyd reports: Personal information connected to hundreds of Lowe’s customers has been compromised. The breach is connected to a fax machine in Vancouver, Canada. A spokesperson from the company that owns the machine does not want to be identified, but said they have received more than 250 pages of customer order information in recent…
Columbia Sportswear Accuses Former IT Employee Of Hacking
Steven Trader reports: Columbia Sportswear Co. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Oregon federal court accusing a former employee in its information technology department of illegally hacking into its computer system after he resigned and assessing highly confidential company information for the benefit of the company’s business partner that hired him. You can read more…