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SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases, issues software security update

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dissent

Jim Finkle reports: SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers on Monday that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the…

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Presidential campaign apps expose personal data, report says

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dissent

First it was their web sites failing to protect privacy, and now it’s their apps. Cory Bennett reports: Over half of presidential campaign-related smartphone apps on Android devices are exposing users’ sensitive data, according to new research. Presidential campaigns — and the groups that support them — are increasingly using smartphone apps to try to…

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SWIFT Software Bug Exploited by Bangladesh Bank Hackers

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports: A bug in SWIFT banking software may have been exploited to allow hackers to make off with $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, according to reports. Investigators at British defense contractor BAE Systems told Reuters that the malware in question, evtdiag.exe, had been designed to change code in SWIFT’s Access…

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Structuring a Settlement After Asserting Class Members Did Not Suffer Any Concrete Injury

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Dissent

R. Locke Beatty of McGuireWoods writes: Frequently, a class action complaint will set forth an elaborate theory of why the defendant’s actions were negligent or wrongful, but fall short when trying to identify how that conduct has harmed the class members.  This kind of complaint invites a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the…

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The Injuries Reilly Ignored: Consumer Data Breaches and Injury-in-Fact

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Dissent

Law student Shannon Grammel writes: The U.S. Supreme Court denied review in 2012 to thousands of individuals whose data was breached who were alleging increased harm of identity theft and seeking to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s decision to deny them standing in Reilly v. Ceridian Corp.1 In so doing, the Supreme…

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SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it?

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Dissent

An episode on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday evening probably alarmed a number of people as it demonstrated how hackers could remotely take over your cell phone and watch you through your camera without anything indicating to you that your camera was in operation, etc. Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone…

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