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Anxiety not a claim for damages in Barnes & Nobles data breach case

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Dissent

Karen Kidd writes: Plaintiffs in a data breach class action lawsuit against Barnes & Noble fixed their standing problem but still couldn’t adequately allege damages, a Pittsburgh attorney says. “Upon analyzing the facts, this was not a particularly surprising ruling,” Brian Willett, an associate with Reed Smith, said. “However, it was significant in the data privacy…

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FTC Issues Guidance for Responding to Data Breaches

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Dissent

Caleb Skeath writes: On Tuesday, the FTC issued new guidance for businesses on responding to data breaches, along with an accompanying blog post and video.  The data breach response guidance follows the issuance of the FTC’s “Start with Security” data security guidance last year and builds upon recent FTC education and outreach initiatives on data security and cybersecurity issues.  The FTC’s data…

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IES users’ data leaked due to ‘inadequate’ security measures: PDPC

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Dissent

Kelly Ng reports: The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) could have “easily detected” and patched security flaws on its website, which had resulted in more than 6,000 users’ personal data being comprised in a data leak in October 2014, said the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) in findings on the incident that it released publicly…

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Abundance of stolen healthcare records on dark web is causing a price collapse

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Dissent

Chris Bing reports: The large amount of leaked patient records stolen and posted for sale to the dark web in recent months has caused prices for most of those records to drop, according to new research provided to CyberScoop and conducted by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and cybersecurity firms Flashpoint and Intel Security….

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Yesterday’s major outage was brought to you by hacked IoT devices

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Dissent

Yesterday, like many others throughout the country, I awoke to the unpleasant fact that I couldn’t connect to Twitter or other sites that I might normally check in the morning. Over the course of the day, we learned some facts about what had happened, and read some theories, but the bottom line was that one…

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NV: State agency audit withheld to protect sensitive data after serious security lapses found

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Dissent

Sandra Chereb reports: Auditors delayed release of a report detailing security vulnerabilities in state databases to protect the information of tens of thousands of current and former state employees and their beneficiaries, a legislative committee was told Tuesday. Douglas Peterson, information systems audit supervisor, told the Legislative Audit Subcommittee it was the first time he…

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