Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has filed a lawsuit arguing that a $4.3 million HIPAA penalty levied against it last year by the Department of Health and Human Services following three data breaches involving unencrypted devices was unlawful. In the complaint filed Tuesday in a Texas federal court,…
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Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years
Great reporting about Thomas White, aka DPR2, aka “The Cthulhu” by Joseph Cox on Motherboard.
Newly discovered ‘TajMahal’ hacking framework includes 80 malicious modules
Duncan Riley reports: Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new and sophisticated advanced persistent threat framework that was likely developed by a nation-state. Dubbed “TajMahal,” the APT framework contains 80 malicious modules that can be used to attack and steal data from an intended victim. Described by Kaspersky researchers today as one of…
Equifax forced to report to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for six years as a result of 2017 data breach
Vito Pilieci reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will monitor American credit agency Equifax Inc. for the next six years after an investigation into a massive data breach of personal information at the firm in 2017. […] The commissioner has also released a “compliance agreement” with the company that cracks down on…
Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected
Jonathan Stempel reports: Yahoo has struck a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history. The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California. She…
Zain Qaiser: Student jailed for blackmailing porn users worldwide
Dominic Cacsiani reports: A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed. Zain Qaiser from Barking, London, used his programming skills to scam visitors to pornography sites around the world. Investigators have discovered about £700,000 of his profits – but his network may have made…