Last year, a security researcher alerted Equifax that anyone could have stolen the personal data of all Americans. The company failed to heed the warning. Great reporting by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on Motherboard. Go read it all.
Category: Of Note
Is a vendetta by the FBI keeping an innocent man in jail, or has DOJ just lost its mind altogether?
I’ve had enough. Actually, I’ve had more than enough. I should have written this post months ago. Last week I received notice from Twitter Legal that they had been served with a grand jury subpoena for my account information. Also listed in the grand jury subpoena were four other Twitter accounts, only one of which…
DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet
Over on TechDirt, Mike Masnick had the patience to write up and report on some of what I should have written up already, but hadn’t. Read Mike’s report on how I and others wound up as the targets of a grand jury subpoena on TechDirt. And if you read carefully, you’ll see that I wound…
WP29 guidelines on personal data breach notification under GDPR
Anita Anand of Allen & Overy writes: The Article 29 Working Party this week published draft Guidelines on personal data breach notificationunder GDPR. The relevant GDPR provisions are often misrepresented, and in many respects leave matters open to interpretation – a good or bad thing depending on the day. Many are now asking what further…
Kromtech Security Center Releases Tool to Identify and Prevent Data Leaks for Amazon S3 Users
Since 2015, this site has been reporting on data leaks due to misconfigured databases or devices that are indexed on shodan.io or other specialized search engines. Many of the leaks I have reported on involve AWS S3 buckets. And despite the fact that Amazon has issued reminders and guidance to its customers about securing buckets,…
UK: NHS data loss scandal deepens with further 162,000 files missing
Rajeev Syal and Denis Campbell report: The scandal over the biggest ever loss of NHS medical correspondence has deepened with the revelation that a further 162,000 documents went missing, in addition to the 702,000 pieces of paperwork already known to have gone astray. MPs said they were “dumbstruck” to learn that even more material relating…