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NC tech firm to pay $264K fine for Vermont data breach

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Dissent

AP reports that Vermont settled with a subcontractor for its Health Connect service after a breach in which the subcontractor didn’t – and possibly would never have – notified anyone about a breach they had been alerted to: Vermont’s attorney general says a technology company will pay a $264,000 fine for a data breach that…

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Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Dissent

Nick Hopkins reports: One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian can reveal. Deloitte, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, was the victim of a cybersecurity…

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California Court Weighs in on the FTC’s Data Security Enforcement Authority

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Dissent

Kade N. Olsen and Craig A. Newman report on a court opinion in the D-Link case – a case that addresses some of the issues also raised in LabMD vs. FTC: Yesterday, a District Court in Northern California weighed in on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to protect consumers from “unfair” and “deceptive”…

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Did a media blackout on reporting on TheDarkOverlord allow them to mushroom in the dark?

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Dissent

By the end of 2016, a number of journalists and/or their employers had made an ethical decision not to report on hacks and in-progress extortion attempts by TheDarkOverlord. But did the lack of coverage enable the criminals to expand their operations without any public attention or public pressure on law enforcement to pursue them aggressively? …

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TheDarkOverlord v2.0: now with threats of physical violence?

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Dissent

You may have never heard of Flathead Valley in Montana. I’ll admit that I had never heard of it until tonight when I received a tip to go look at a post on their sheriff’s Facebook page.  And that’s when I learned that Flathead County schools had not only been hacked and threatened if they didn’t…

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The FTC is officially investigating the Equifax breach

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Dissent

Kate Roddy reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Thursday it has launched an investigation into Equifax’s massive data breach, where hackers gained access to the personal information of approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. In an email statement Thursday, FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan said “The FTC typically does not comment on ongoing investigations. However,…

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