Yet another recent press release – this one from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut – shields the name of the breached entity: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATASHA SMITH, 25, of Georgia, formerly of Far Rockaway, New York, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday,…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Breach Notification: Time for a Wake Up Call
Mark G. McCreary has an article on CIO Insight, “Breach Notification: Time for a Wake Up Call,” that discusses how the Epsilon breach produced a seismic change in what kinds of breaches now get reported. You can read his article here.
Data Breaches Harder to Understand
Brian Martin of the Open Security Foundation and DataLossDB.org project writes: On the off chance you missed any news outlet the last 30 days, an “anti security” movement has been reborn. Started in 1999, theAntisec Movement focused on encouraging security consultants and hackers not to disclose vulnerabilities to vendors. The recent resurgence of this movement has…
Hiding in Plain Sight: Post-Breach
Gunter Ollmann writes: The majority of network breaches begin and end with the installation of malware upon a vulnerable device. For the rest, once that initial malware beachhead has been achieved, the story is only just beginning. The breach disclosures that make the news are often confusing as they’re frequently compiled from third-hand reports, opinions…
Few e-retailers are prepared to notify consumers of a loss of card data
Don Davis writes: Only 21% of online retailers are prepared to notify consumers in the event of a data breach that exposes cardholder data, according to a new survey sponsored by insurance agency Jacobson, Goldfarb & Scott Inc. 61% of the 300 e-retailers surveyed said they were not prepared to notify consumers and 18% were…
Pointer: right to know
Another consumer is singing my tune about how consumers have a right to know what merchant had a breach. That states and Congress have yet to recognize that right is disappointing.