Daniel R. Stoller reports: A French nongovernmental organization wants Facebook Inc. to pay 100 million euros ($113 million) and fix any problems stemming from recent data security incidents and privacy breaches. The Internet Society of France, a public interest group that advocates for online rights, sent a formal notice to Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram…
Category: Of Note
They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up.
Benjamin Herold has a great piece on EdWeek about two teens in Michigan who have been charged criminally with hacking. It is a case that Doug Levin previously brought to the public’s attention in the context of a question as to whether schools are failing to deal effectively with young curious minds. This particular case…
VirtualBox zero-day published by disgruntled researcher
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a zero-day published by researcher Sergey Zelenyuk and his decision to go public instead of going through the usual system of notification, waiting, etc. Some of the issues he raises are ones that I have been hearing about recently from other researchers who are disenchanted, to say the least, with the…
Protenus releases its Q3 report on breaches involving health data
Protenus has released its Q3 report on breaches involving health data. As explained in their methodology, since its inception in 2016, Protenus reports have not confined themselves to just using data from HHS’s public breach tool (“The Wall of Shame”). Instead, the Protenus reports, using data compiled by DataBreaches.net, include data from incidents also involving…
Sim Swapping Crypto Hacking Group Busted in Turkey
From TrustNodes: Turkish police has arrested 11 individuals on suspicion of hacking cryptocurrencies through Sim Swapping. The individuals in question allegedly tricked phone providers into transferring the victim’s phone number to them. Apparently fake IDs were prepared for this operation, according to local crypto media, with the thieves pretending the victim’s phone was stolen. They…
No need for Russia to hack the House of Representatives if the House keeps leaving its doors open.
In early August, “Flash Gordon” (@s7nsins on Twitter) contacted me to say that he discovered a leak involving the House of Representatives. In light of all the talk about Russia trying to hack our elections, I decided that we probably should notify the House right away in case there was any kind of sensitive files…