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APT28 hack will cost French broadcaster TV5Monde €15 million

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Dissent

So first they thought it was CyberCaliphate who was responsible for the TV5Monde hack that was disclosed in April. Then they said it was Russia’s APT28 group. Regardless of who it was, the hack was costly, as I noted here last week. Neil Ford reports:   Yves Bigot, the network’s director general, was quoted by France…

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Personal health information in the wrong hands can be painful

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

No wonder PHI is an attractive target for cyber criminals. It is relatively easy to get, and it gives them all the advantages of a stolen identity. And it is tough for defenders to protect data that is meant to be widely, and quickly, shared Read Taylor Armerding’s article on CSO as to why protected health…

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Stolen Consumer Data Is a Smaller Problem Than It Seems?

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

Nathaniel Popper suggests stolen consumer data is not as big a problem or threat as it may seem, and the impact on consumers is somewhat declining over time. Read his article in the New York Times:  Stolen Consumer Data Is a Smaller Problem Than It Seems. While I agree with him that there’s been a lot…

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Breach litigation standing — the bell tolls for Clapper

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Dissent

There have been a number of law firms blogging about the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in the Neiman Marcus lawsuit as a game-changer in data breach litigation. Here’s one commentary by Taylor Brooke Concannon and Peter Sloan of Husch Blackwell: For years, federal district courts have reliably dismissed data breach consumer class actions at the outset, citing the…

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FBI says hackers shake down big banks, threaten to shut sites if they don’t pay up

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dissent

Priya Anand reports: More than 100 companies, including targets from big banks to brokerages in the financial sector, have received distributed denial of service threats since about April, says Richard Jacobs, assistant special agency in charge of the cyber branch at the FBI’s New York office. With these types of attacks, known as DDoS, criminals…

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A third of workers admit they’d leak sensitive biz data for peanuts

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: A third of employees would sell information on company patents, financial records and customer credit card details if the price was right. A poll of 4,000 employees in the UK, Germany, USA and Australia found that for £5,000, a quarter would flog off sensitive data, potentially risking both their job and criminal…

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