Of course, there are a gadzillion hacks of smaller sites going on every week, but this one caught my eye. Richie Davis reports: When Ed Wierzbowski bought Greenfield’s Arms Block and the former Franklin Savings Institution to bring high-profile musical performances to local audiences, the last thing he imagined having to deal with was Indonesian…
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Reply Brief Filed in United States v. Auernheimer
Orin Kerr writes: Readers who are following the Weev case, aka United States v. Auernheimer, the Third Circuit appeal I am litigating pro bono, might be interested to know that we filed our reply brief today. You can read the reply brief here.
Investigative report by Brian Krebs leads to more questions for Experian from Senator Rockfeller
At least one member of Congress is paying attention. Senator Jay Rockefeller has written to Experian, requesting more details on security issues first reported by Brian Krebs. Brian has more on the latest developments here. I suspect that Senator Rockefeller is not aware of the FTC complaint I filed about Experian data breaches last year….
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data publishes reports on two investigation into data security at the Hong Kong Police Department
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has released two reports on investigations involving possible violations of the Data Protection Ordinance. Both reports involve the Hong Kong Police Department. The first investigation involved the leakage of an HKPD document containing personally identifiable information via Foxy (a file-sharing program). Two instances…
How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked
Dana Liebelson reports: With Healthcare.gov plagued by technical difficulties, the Obama administration is bringing in heavyweight coders and private companies like Verizon to fix the federal health exchange, pronto. But web security experts say the Obamacare tech team should add another pressing cyber issue to its to-do list: eliminating a security flaw that could make sensitive user information, including Social Security…
Obamacare exchange contractors had past security lapses
Be forewarned: I will not allow the comments section for this post to be used as a political platform on Obamacare. Comments about whether government should consider past breaches or problems in awarding government contracts for jobs involving personally identifiable information are welcome. Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Two of the contractors involved in developing the Affordable…