Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have broken into an internet infrastructure firm that provides services to dozens of the world’s largest and most valuable companies, including Oracle, Volkswagen, Airbus, and many more as part of an extortion attempt, Motherboard has learned. The attackers have also released data from all of those companies, according to a website…
Category: Of Note
China Ministries Jointly Release Guidelines for Protecting Personal Information Online
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 11, 2019, the People’s Republic of China’s Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Beijing Network Industry Association and the Third Research Institution of the Ministry of Public Security jointly released a “Guide to Protection of Security of Internet Personal Information (the “Guide”). The Guide presents…
Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks
Swati Khandelwal reports: A team of security researchers has discovered several vulnerabilities in various implementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signature verification that could allow attackers to spoof signatures on over a dozen of popular email clients. The affected email clients include Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail with GPGTools, iOS Mail, GpgOL, KMail, Evolution, MailMate,…
In the process of notifying patients of a web exposure breach, Inmediata experiences a mail exposure breach?!
Reading the comments under the Inmediata press release is like watching a train wreck happen right in front of you. Many people are reporting that they have received multiple notification letters from Inmediata — many with the names of people who are unknown to them and who do not live at their address. One person…
SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), a laundry list of compliance “deficiencies or weaknesses” were identified in…
Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households
vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million American households. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living in each household with their full names, their marital status,…