Luther Turmelle reports: A spike in the number of fraudulent state income tax returns filed in Connecticut has led some Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield customers to believe that it is the result of the massive data breach the insurer revealed in early February. Officials with state Attorney General George Jepsen’s office acknowledge they…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Security pro pulled off flight by FBI after light-hearted tweet
Really, FBI, I know you’re under heavy criticism and all, but you need to lighten up sometimes. Within 5 minutes of security expert Chris Roberts (@sidragon1) lightheartedly tweeting on a plane: Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? “PASS OXYGEN ON” Anyone ? 🙂 Rafał Łoś…
The nearly mythical mobile data breach
Mike Cetera writes: Data breaches are a huge and growing problem, but the odds that a cybercriminal will steal your bank or contact information from your smartphone are incredibly small, a new study has found. The biggest security issue facing mobile users is malware — malicious code sometimes hidden in apps — and even that…
UK law firms investigated 187 times for data protection breaches
John E. Dunn reports: UK law firms were investigated 187 times by the Information Commissioner in 2014 for possible breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA), a Freedom of Information (FoI) data by encryption firm Egress Software Technologies has revealed. It might be assumed that legal firms would be especially careful with personal data but…
There’s TOO MANY data-leaking healthcare firms, growls Symantec
Darren Pauli reports: Security software company Symantec is being drenched in calls from breached health organisations that have lost devices or suffered an information security snafu. Some 80 per cent of the calls its incident response team has received since December are from healthcare firms, topping the charts for the number of breach incidents for 2014 for…
FL: Teacher’s laptop stolen in rash of St. Augustine Beach car burglaries
Oh, here’s a pleasant change. After a teacher’s laptop was stolen from her car, the reporter asked the St. Johns County School Board whether any student information on the school computer might have been compromised: Officials said all school computers are password-protected and their hard drives are encrypted, so no personal information could have been…