Canadian Press reports: The Northwest Territories is facing a lawsuit over a stolen laptop containing medical files that could include information on every resident in the territory. […] The lawsuit stems from a government-owned laptop that was stolen from inside a parked vehicle in Ottawa in May 2018. The laptop has never been found. Read…
Category: Of Note
Operation reWired: Worldwide Sweep Targets Business Email Compromise
The FBI and federal partners today announced scores of arrests in the United States and overseas in a coordinated law enforcement sweep targeting perpetrators of an insidious scam that tricks businesses and individuals into wiring money to criminals. Operation reWired, a months-long, multi-agency effort to disrupt and dismantle international business email compromise (BEC) schemes, resulted…
Scraping A Public Website Doesn’t Violate the CFAA, Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Holds
Orin Kerr writes: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a groundbreaking decision today on the federal computer hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, the court held that scraping a public website is likely not a CFAA violation. Under the new decision, violating the CFAA…
DoD Releases Public Draft of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and Seeks Industry Input
Susan B. Cassidy, Samantha Clark, Ryan Burnette and Ian Brekke of Covington & Burling write: On September 4, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition released Version 0.4 of its draft Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) for public comment. The CMMC was created in response to growing concerns by Congress and within…
LinkedIn Can’t Block Analytics Company From Scraping Profiles
Wendy Davis reports: LinkedIn can’t rely on a 33-year-old anti-hacking law to prevent prevent the analytics firm HiQ Labs from mining data, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, leaves in place an injunction that requires LinkedIn to allow publicly available data…
Ca: Potential health data breach exposing names, medical conditions discovered by privacy researcher
Francesca Fionda reports: Up on the roof of the Vancouver Public Library, privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis connects a small antenna to her laptop to listen in on what appears to be a major ongoing breach of sensitive health data of patients in the Vancouver area. For months, she says, personal information has been sent…