From the well-there’s-certainly-room-for-improvement dept.: Scope and Objective The objective of our audit was to determine whether the District’s IT assets were adequately safeguarded for the period July 1, 2013 through November 5, 2014. We extended our review of data extracted from the District’s computers and networks through the end of our fieldwork March 3, 2015….
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data?
Helen Lewis has a lengthy, and thought-provoking piece on Nieman Reports that asks, Journalists have been accused of invading privacy, threatening national security, and breaching copyright by publishing such stories, and their sources might lose their jobs, their freedom, or even their lives. So how should reporters and editors decide whether to publish and how much…
Experian sued over Court Ventures-related breach
He beat me to it. 🙂 While I took a break to argue on Twitter about the hacked Jeep story in Wired, Brian Krebs was reporting on a class action lawsuit filed against Experian over the Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch data breach that was covered extensively on both his site and on this site. The lawsuit was…
Anonymous focused on Canada after RCMP shooting of protester
While massive hacks in the U.S., stupid remarks by our presidential candidates, and Greece and China’s economies grab the headlines, there are those trying to sound alarms in Canada about hacks/attacks by members of Anonymous. So far, though, their warnings seem to be falling on either incredibly calm or incredibly clueless ears. Attacks by Anonymous in Canada escalated…
Hacking Team Bypassing Google’s Checks Underlines Play Store’s Security Problems
Manish Singh reports: In the aftermath of a mega security breach of Hacking Team, an Italian company consisting of a group of professional hackers, startling revelations continue to pour in. The latest to hit the shore is a loophole in Google Play’s security checks that allowed a malicious app developed by the Hacking Team to find…
Anonymous has long history of activism and controversy
Gordon Hoekstra reports; Anonymous, the group that claimed Sunday it had launched an attack on the RCMP for the shooting of a Dawson Creek man, is a loose affiliation of international hackers that originated in 2003. Since then, it has launched dozens of operations, largely over the Internet, that have targeted child porn websites, supported…