Derek Borchardt and Michael F. Buchanan have an update on litigation previously noted on this site. At its heart, a lawsuit claimed a Chicago law firm, Johnson & Bell, had inadequate data security. There was no allegation of any actual breach – the suit was over inadequate data security. Back in December of last year, we reported that for the…
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Dutch detectives unravel 3.6 million encrypted emails sent by criminals
DutchNews.nl reports: Dutch detectives have gained access to 3.6 million encrypted emails sent by criminal gangs which will be used in dozens of prosecutions, the public prosecution department said on Thursday. The information in the mails will provide evidence for criminal cases, including murder, armed robbery, drugs, money laundering and other forms of organised crime,…
Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal U.S. Groups
Michael Riley reports: Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms. At least a dozen groups have faced extortion attempts since…
Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
Sometimes you just have to grin when the bad guys screw up, misconfigure their backup, and expose their entire operation to the world. This is one of those times. Chris Vickery of the MacKeeper Security Research team and Steve Ragan of Salted Hash have the mega leak of the year. Steve writes: This is the story…
Yahoo says 32m user accounts were accessed via cookie forging attack
Asha McLean reports: Yahoo has said that an unauthorised third party accessed the company’s proprietary code to learn how to forge certain cookies, which it said resulted in an intruder accessing approximately 32 million user accounts without a password. “The outside forensic experts have identified approximately 32 million user accounts for which they believe forged…
Police in southern China bust six large data theft operations
Josh Ye reports: Police in southern China have busted six data theft operations, arresting 138 suspects at 14 locations in the city of Guangzhou, according to a national newspaper . The police said the raid, which took place on early on Monday, seized more than 2,000 bank cards and a large number of electronic devices including…