Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises to protect users from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, was exposed by a crew going by the name of FTA,…
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IS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis
Stuart Ramsay reports: Tens of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have been obtained by Sky News. Nationals from at least 51 countries, including the UK, had to give up their most personal information as they joined the terror organisation. Only when the 23-question form…
Update on Canadian Data Breach Regulations: Consultation
Timothy M. Banks of Dentons writes: Innovations, Science and Economic Development Canada has issued a consultation paper asking Canadians what should be included in new data breach regulations that will be made under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). The consultation will close on May 31, 2016. Following this consultation process, the Canadian Government will publish…
Cybersecurity issues raised by GhostShell on International Women’s Day
The following commentary was contributed by GhostShell of Team GhostShell, in honor of International Women’s Day. Something has been bugging me for quite some time and I was planning on speaking about it publicly eventually but I suppose now is a good opportunity for it, too. While active all these years on the scene together with the…
FTC To Study Credit Card Industry Data Security Auditing
Note: The PCI DSS Council currently lists 346 qualified security assessors. It would be nice to know how the FTC picked the nine it’s questioning, and I’ve sent the FTC an inquiry about that. * * * The Federal Trade Commission has issued orders to nine companies requiring them to provide the agency with information on how…
Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign
Jim Finkle reports: Apple Inc customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc told Reuters on Sunday. […] Palo Alto Threat Intelligence Director Ryan Olson said the “KeRanger” malware, which appeared on Friday,…