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In Memoriam, Kurt Wimmer

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Dissent

One of the most important contributors to this blog will be laid to rest this morning, and I am absolutely gutted. For more than one decade, Kurt Wimmer was this blog and this blogger’s First Amendment defender and counsel. It was only with Kurt’s pro bono help and that of Jason Criss, and their colleagues…

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Cyber Breach Disclosures Still Take More Than a Month

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Dissent

Vincent Ryan reports: After being discovered, cybersecurity breaches are not consistently disclosed promptly, found an Audit Analytics study of public companies released on Friday. On average, publicly held companies took 53 days to disclose a breach incident after discovering it. The 53-day average disclosure timeframe is less than the 10-year average of 67 days, but…

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No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: Q Link Wireless, a provider of low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million US-based customers, has been making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid phone number on the carrier’s network, an analysis of the company’s account management app shows. Read more on The Register. Opinion: I…

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Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The group behind the Maze and Egregor ransomware operations are believed to have earned at least $75 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom payments following intrusions at companies all over the world. “We believe this figure to be much more significant, but we can only assess the publicly acknowledged ransom payments. Many victims never…

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Proctor-U agrees to security audit thanks to inquiries by Senator Wyden

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Dissent

Sean Lyngaas reports: A company whose software has been widely used to administer law school entrance exams during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to an independent audit of the software after a U.S. senator raised cybersecurity concerns about the product. Alabama-based ProctorU’s web-browser extension software has allowed people across the U.S. to take the LSAT…

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What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Dissent

Lily Hay Newman reports: Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. The data includes things like profile names, Facebook ID numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. It’s all the kind of information that may already have been leaked or scraped from some…

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