Secunder Kermani reports: Afghan diplomats in Pakistan have been warned they are believed to be victims of “government-backed” digital attacks trying to steal their email passwords. Afghan embassy sources told the BBC two staff members and a generic account received alerts from Google this month. Last week Amnesty International detailed attempts to install malware on…
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NY: Monroe County Clerk tossing personal, sensitive DMV customer information in the trash
WHEC has the story, brought to them by a consumer who observed employees just tossing records with personal information: Mottshaw says he refuses to give his social security number out because his identity has been stolen before. When he was at the DMV in Henrietta he says he saw employees throw documents in the garbage….
EPIC to DC Circuit: Informational Privacy is a Constitutional Right
From EPIC: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board), in the OPM Data Breachcase. The case concerns the data breach at the US Office of Personnel and Management in 2015 that affected 22 million federal employees, their friends, and…
Two Members of Syrian Electronic Army Indicted for Conspiracy
May 17 – ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging two Syrian men with offenses relating to their participation in a conspiracy to engage in computer hacking as members of the “Syrian Electronic Army” or “SEA.” Ahmad ‘Umar Agha, who is known online as the “The Pro,” and Firas Dardar,…
Los Angeles County 211 exposed call logs with details
Another day, another leak involving sensitive information. From the UpGuard team: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now disclose that sensitive data from the Los Angeles County 211 service, a nonprofit assistance organization described on their website as “the central source for providing information and referrals for all health and human services in LA County,” was…
Marines make changes after data of 164,000 people lost on Okinawa
And poof… It sounds like many people may have known for years about the sloppy infosecurity being used but no one really did anything to put a more secure system in place… and so, of course, it was inevitable that disaster struck. Matthew M. Burke reports: The Marine Corps has changed the way it handles…