Stuart Altman and Michelle Kisloff write: In a decision issued late last Friday, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected an effort by class action Plaintiffs to access materials created in the course of Target’s investigation of its 2013 payment card breach that Target claimed were protected by the attorney-client privilege and…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Hacking cars in the style of Stuxnet
Hacking cars in the style of Stuxnet András Szijj1, Levente Buttyán1, Zsolt Szalay2 1 CrySyS Lab, Department of Networked Systems and Service 2 Department of Automobiles and Vehicle Manufacturing Budapest University of Technology and Economics Overheads at http://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/publications/carhacking-Hacktivity-2015.pdf
UK: Experian rules out GOV.UK Verify changes after T-mobile data breach
Neil Merrett reports: Experian has opted against making any immediate changes to the service it offers as a contracted identity provider for GOV.UK Verify following an unrelated data breach last month of one of its servers that contained some identifying information of T-Mobile customers in the US. Experian is among five companies currently accredited to…
Hacktivism: A single hacker is taking down racist and homophobic sites one by one
Emil Protalinski writes: A hacker who goes by the name of Amped Attacks specializes in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). Unlike some hackers who take out websites and services that many rely on, Amped Attacks prefers to target racist and homophobic bullshit. Read more on VentureBeat. While some may nod their heads approvingly because well, we hate these sites,…
Failure to update software left Naperville computers vulnerable: report
A costly reminder of the need to patch and update promptly. Geoff Ziezulewicz reports: Hackers were able to break into Naperville’s computer network in an unprecedented 2012 cyber attack because of a vulnerability in the city’s web software that had not been patched, even though an alert and update had been released roughly a month…
Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. lose coverage in privacy breach case
Yelitza V. Dunham of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A group of Liberty Mutual insurance companies successfully obtained declaratory relief that they had no duty to defend Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. from two underlying actions alleging that spyware had been installed on rent-to-own computers. One of these, the Byrd Action, was a putative class action…