Claire McInerny reports: The U.S. Department of Education (USED) sent a letter to Superintendent Jennifer McCormick this month outlining problems with the Indiana Department of Education’s security around student data. The state receives grant money from USED for implementing security systems, which opened the state up to an audit. According to the USED letter, the audit’s “objective…
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AlphaBay and Hansa taken down in coordinated operations by FBI and Dutch National Police
Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa will lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa. Two major law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US…
Sentenced malware developer a ‘key resource’ for criminal networks
R. Robin McDonald reports that the hacker known as “Kolypto,” whose real name is Mark Vartanyan, has been sentenced in federal court in Atlanta to five years in prison. Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say Vartanyan developed, improved, and distributed a pernicious computer malware toolkit known as Citadel that targeted major financial and government institutions around the…
Man tells feds he wrote software that stole $40M in bitcoin
Peter Hall reports: Police on the trail of two missing laptops and a gold necklace followed it to the Montgomery County home of a self-described computer hacker who claims responsibility for what could be one of the largest virtual currency heists of all time, court documents say. Theodore Price of Hatfield told a local detective…
210 govt. websites found displaying personal info, including Aadhaar
Yuthika Bhargava reports: About 210 government websites were found to be displaying personal information, including name, address and Aadhaar number, of beneficiaries, the government said on Wednesday. “…It was found that around 210 websites of Central Government, State Government Departments, including educational institutes were displaying the list of beneficiaries along with their name, address, other…
Vendor Breached Your Company Data? Sorry, You’re Still Liable
Rhys Dipshan writes: Call it the summer of vendor security mishaps. In June, a data firm hired by the Republican National Committee inadvertently exposed the personal information of almost 200 million American voters by misconfiguring an Amazon cloud server. A month later, Verizon’s customer service vendor NICE Systems made the same mistake and exposed data…