Graham Cluley writes: Valve, the developers of the Steam online gaming platform, says that its members are facing a serious problem. Accounts have always been hijacked on the gaming site, by hackers who have stolen passwords, but now the problem is said to have risen twenty-fold, with some 77,000 Steam accounts hacked every month. Read…
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High-Risk Security Vulnerabilities Identified During Reviews of Information System General Controls at Three California Managed-Care Organizations Raise Concerns About the Integrity of Systems Used To Process Medicaid Claims
From the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services: We summarized the high-risk security vulnerabilities that we identified as audit findings in our previous reviews of information system general controls at three California Medi Cal managed-care organizations (MCOs). We identified 74 high-risk security vulnerabilities in the information system…
Hackers Threaten to Put Bullet in Researcher’s Brain
Robert Hackett reports: Researchers at the Citizen Lab, an Internet watchdog group based at the University of Toronto, published a deep dive on Monday about a seven-year hacking campaign against South American political dissidents, journalists, and others. During the investigation, the cyber spies engaged with the researchers directly, issuing a series of taunts, jabs, and threats on…
Audit Finds IT Security Flaws Still Plague Calif. Courts
Nick Cahill reports: Despite a 2013 audit revealing significant information security flaws, the Judicial Council of California hasn’t improved its control systems and remains “unacceptably” at risk for data breaches, according to a follow-up audit. The council’s case management records and human resources data are specifically jeopardized because of its failure to implement recommendations from…
Global survey by Gemalto reveals impact of data breaches on customer loyalty
AMSTERDAM – December 10, 2015 – Nearly two-thirds (64%) of consumers surveyed worldwide say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was stolen, and almost half (49%) had the same opinion when it came to data breaches where personal information was stolen. This is according to…
OPM hit for mishandling data breach cleanup
Tal Koppan reports: The federal agency that had more than 21 million Americans’ personal information stolen in a massive hack is once again in congressional cross-hairs — this time for improperly doling out taxpayer dollars to protect those Americans after the data breach. The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general released a report this month,…