Priya Anand reports: Consumer and data privacy advocates are asking federal regulators to investigate the breach at credit bureau Experian, which compromised the personal information of millions of T-Mobile customers. “We believe that it is incumbent on the regulatory agencies to fully investigate this breach, including whether other Experian databases have been breached,” they wrote in…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Do Experian’s board, investors, and public know the full extent of Experian’s security concerns?
Brian Krebs has a piece on security at Experian that I hope the FTC and Congress critters read. One of the points I had made in my complaint to the FTC is that Experian’s multiple data security breaches were not disclosed in either its annual reports or reports to investors. Brian’s piece makes me wonder…
Virginia gets proactive, wants to test troopers’ cars for hack vulnerabilities
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: A state trooper responding to a call starts his vehicle, but is unable to shift the gear from park to drive. The engine RPMs suddenly spike and the engine accelerates, no foot on the pedal. Then the engine cuts off on its own. The unmarked 2012 Chevrolet Impala from the Virginia…
Factory settings FAIL: Data easily recovered from eBayed smartphones, disks
John Leyden reports: Data recovery experts have found a raft personal information from used hard drives and mobile phones purchased from Amazon, eBay and Gazelle in the UK, US and Germany. The research, by Blancco Technology Group and Kroll Ontrack, once again shows that failure to erase data from discarded devices continues to be a…
Danish Bank Leaves Server in Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Information in JavaScript Comments
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch IT security expert Sijmen Ruwhof has found a pretty big blunder on the part of Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, which exposed sensitive user session information in the form of an encoded data dump, in their banking portal’s JavaScript files. Mr. Ruwhof started to research Danish banking policies out of curiosity,…
FTSE heads for weekly rise but Experian drops on US data breach
It’s always interesting to see if a company’s stock prices take any hit from a breach. Nick Fletcher reports on The Guardian: Leading shares are moving higher ahead of the US jobs data, with banks boosted by news of a deadline being set for consumers to claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance. But Experian has dropped more…