Thanks to Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer. Catalin called my attention to a notification from Macy’s about a breach affecting Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers. I had actually tweeted about that breach notification last week but I seem to have forgotten to post anything here. What I had tweeted was: I don’t often see this kind…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Security Firm Sued for Failing to Detect Malware That Caused a 2009 Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client’s network for months, an issue that led to one of the biggest security breaches of the 2000s. Read more on Bleeping Computer about how Lexington Insurance…
ZA: Eastern Cape’s massive schools data loss
Msindisi Fengu reports: Nearly all data containing information about thousands of Eastern Cape schools, pupils and teachers were wiped out of a multimillion-rand digital filing system at the start of the year. A report compiled by Sizwe IT Group, the company that installed and commissioned the Simplivity digital system that cost the provincial education department…
Homeland Security subpoenas Twitter for an independent researcher’s information
Homeland Security has subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an independent researcher who has been the source of a number of this site’s reports. Is this just another chapter in the war on independent researchers to try to chill speech? Or is there more to the story that we do not yet know? Zack…
LabMD litigators on what case says about US cyber regulation
David Cohen, Douglas Meal, and Michelle Visser of Ropes and Gray, the firm that represented LabMD against the FTC, write: Representing LabMD in its successful petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has been a fascinating experience in a number of ways. One of those is what the case reinforced for…
Education Scotland order hard reset on school social networking app following major security breach
Derek Healey reports: Education Scotland is facing “very difficult questions” after being forced to order a hard reset of all passwords across its national digital learning platform following a major security breach. An email distributed to headteachers and seen by The Courier has revealed how management called for all log-ins to be scrapped after it…