A FOIA request has set off another dispute between Uber and the NYS Attorney General’s Office, it seems. Marlene Kennedy reports: Uber has gone to court to ensure confidentiality over records it provided for New York’s investigation of how the ride-sharing service secures data. New York began collecting the information two years ago after media…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Probable security breach may have compromised thousands of Lewis Palmer students’ data
Sherrie Pief reports: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 officials are mum about the probability that a security breach related to its Infinite Campus platform may have compromised more than 2,000 students’ personal information. Infinite Campus is a software program that stores personal and academic information about students in the district. But wait… the district has known…
How a Formula 1 team protects itself from hackers and data breaches
Danny Palmer of ZDNet spoke with Graeme Hackland, IT Director of Williams Martini Racing and Williams Advanced Engineering about the challenges and concerns they face, and how they approach it. If you’re a fan of F1, you may want to read it. If you’re not a fan of F1, what’s wrong with you?!
China site reveals over 100 Japanese entities at risk of cyber-attacks
Masako Wakae reports: Hackers have disclosed the names of more than 100 Japanese public organizations and companies that have website vulnerabilities (see below) since February this year. WooYun, a website operated by Chinese cybersecurity experts and others, disclosed the names of the Japanese companies on its website. […] So far WooYun has carried reports about the…
Insider breach – Shapeshift’s story
@SwiftonSecurity kept telling everyone on Twitter that we #MUSTREAD the story of what happened at Shapeshift.io. And with good reason: it’s a phenomenal account of an insider breach told with the kind of refreshing honesty that’s often missing in most breach disclosures. It also reads like a thriller. I’m going to give readers a different…
So does Spokeo v. Robins help plaintiffs or defendants?
I’ve read some of the commentaries on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Spokeo v. Robins, as both sides claimed victory. Today, I read commentary by Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman. Both seemed to suggest that the decision may be of greater benefit to defendants in data breach lawsuits than to plaintiffs. Here’s a snippet from Venkat’s…