Jermont Terry reports: Local veterans said they are just learning now their identities may have be stolen from the VFW. Cyber hackers broke into the agency’s website and likely compromised military plans, not to mention the peace of mind of vets. This security breach happened back in February but it seems the thousands of vets…
Category: Malware
Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all
Sean Gallagher reports on an interesting revelation concerning the second data breach at the University of Maryland: A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working…
Is delaying notification for law enforcement purposes ever unreasonable?
Over on Security Bistro, Linda Musthaler discusses the recently disclosed Spec’s breach and the fact that Spec’s knew about the breach but was asked not to disclose it by law enforcement. We’ve seen this many times – delays in notification so as not to interfere with a law enforcement investigation. But should there be some…
RK Internet notifies customers after malware snags their information
When RK Internet (“Rural King”) became suspicious on March 7th that their web server had been compromised, they brought in forensic investigators. Those investigators discovered that malware had been injected, and for transactions that occurred between February 6 until March 12, customers names, debit or credit card number with security code and expiration date, telephone…
Possible data breach affects roughly 15K U. Wisconsin -Parkside students
Carey Docter reports: The University of Wisconsin-Parkside notified approximately 15,000 students on Thursday, March 27th of the potential exposure of personal data. Notifications were sent to the most recent email and U.S. mail addresses on file. The data that is potentially at risk includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and Social Security numbers of students who…
Pointer: Senate Commerce report on Target data breach
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released its report, “A “Kill Chain” Analysis of the 2013 Target Data Breach.” The report was prepared by the majority staff for Chairman Rockefeller.