Eric Schelkopf reports that Batavia Container Inc. has sued a former employee, Robert M. Dunn. The suit alleges he stole company secrets before he left to work for a competitor, Victory Packaging, and that his employment with Victory Packaging was in violation of the provisions of a noncompete agreement. Read more on MySuburbanLife.com. In related coverage on The Daily Herald,…
Category: Business Sector
Tremco, Inc. notifying employees about lost laptop
Ohio-based Tremco, Inc. is notifying employees whose personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on a laptop left on an airplane June 17th by a Human Resources employee. The employee reported the loss immediately, but so far, the laptop has not been recovered. Several weeks after the loss, the employee realized that there…
Trade groups send letter with data security priorities to Senate
Seen on NACS: Last Friday, NACS and a group including eight other trade associations sent a letter to every U.S. Senator articulating the priorities of the associations in the context of data breach or data security legislation. The Senate has indicated that it might consider cybersecurity information-sharing legislation on the floor this coming week and if so,…
Dubizzle’s UAE website suffers security breach
Neil Halligan reports: Classified listing website dubizzle.com has said its UAE website suffered a security breach where a small number of registered users have been affected. dubizzle’s General Manager, Barry Judge said the company sent an email to users on Saturday following the discovery of the breach, warning people to change passwords as a precaution….
APT28 hack will cost French broadcaster TV5Monde €15 million
So first they thought it was CyberCaliphate who was responsible for the TV5Monde hack that was disclosed in April. Then they said it was Russia’s APT28 group. Regardless of who it was, the hack was costly, as I noted here last week. Neil Ford reports: Yves Bigot, the network’s director general, was quoted by France…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…