Swati Khandelwal writes: As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many more. The financial malware’s were the most popular threat this year….
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NZ: Huge increase in Inland Revenue Department reports of privacy breaches in 2013
Looks like New Zealand’s new Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, has his work cut out for him. ONE News reports: Confirmed privacy breaches at Inland Revenue have jumped by almost 400 percent in the past year despite a crackdown after a spate of failings. In 2012 there were 32 separate privacy breaches but ONE News can…
Shark Tanks and Cybersecurity
Derek Bambauer writes: It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for data breaches.Target may have compromised as many as 40 million credit and debit cards used by shoppers in their stores. What liability will they face? At George Mason’s excellent workshop on cybersecurity, there was a spirited debate over the mechanisms of enforcing security standards. (This…
There are lessons to be learned from the Maricopa County Community Colleges breach. Learn them, dammit.
I generally do not write “lessons learned from [X breach] ” posts, because I seriously doubt people have really learned anything. Instead of headlines like “Lessons learned from…,” what we should be writing is, “If you don’t learn from this, then you’re an idiot and should never be allowed near consumers’ personal information.” In any…
From my mail bag…
Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: Over on DataBreaches.net, a number of people are reporting that they have received notification letters for the Maricopa Community Colleges breach, but that they’ve never attended the college and have no idea why they’re receiving letters. Today, I got an email about a breach reported on this site (phiprivacy.net). I’m redacting it, but…
Ranking Members Waxman and DeGette Release Memo on Healthcare.gov Security
Over on beSpacific, Sabrinia Pacifici writes: “Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette released a memo to Democratic Committee members regarding the security of Healthcare.gov. In a classified briefing two days ago, HHS officials revealed that there have been no successful security attacks…