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Security Firm Sued for Failing to Detect Malware That Caused a 2009 Breach

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two insurance companies are suing a cyber-security firm to recover insurance fees paid to a customer after the security firm failed to detect malware on the client’s network for months, an issue that led to one of the biggest security breaches of the 2000s. Read more on Bleeping Computer about how Lexington Insurance…

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After Strava, Polar is Revealing the Homes of Soldiers and Spies

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Dissent

Foeke Postma reveals the disastrous situation: Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields, nuclear weapons storage sites, and embassies around the world, a joint investigation of Bellingcat and Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent reveals. In January Nathan Ruser discovered that…

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Police probe after adoption agency’s files found strewn on Tel Aviv street

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Dissent

Times of Israel reports: A Tel Aviv resident was shocked to find thousands of highly confidential documents from a leading Israeli adoption agency strewn on a sidewalk in the city. The files from the Taf adoption agency listed names of hundreds of adoptive parents and children between the years 1999-2016, and in most cases included…

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Homeland Security subpoenas Twitter for an independent researcher’s information

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Dissent

Homeland Security has subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an independent researcher who has been the source of a number of this site’s reports. Is this just another chapter in the war on independent researchers to try to chill speech? Or is there more to the story that we do not yet know?  Zack…

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Chinese police bust 7 suspects in large data theft operation

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Dissent

Xinhua reports on a huge bust: Police in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced Friday that they have arrested seven suspects for stealing more than 2 billion items of personal data. The data included people’s email accounts and passwords, ID numbers, cellphone numbers and payment accounts from more than 60 countries and regions, said…

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LabMD litigators on what case says about US cyber regulation

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Dissent

David Cohen, Douglas Meal, and Michelle Visser of Ropes and Gray, the firm that represented LabMD against the FTC, write: Representing LabMD in its successful petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has been a fascinating experience in a number of ways. One of those is what the case reinforced for…

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