Robert D. Fram, Simon J. Frankel and Amanda C. Lynch of Covington & Burling write: For most substantial companies, it is said, experiencing a data breach is not a matter of “if,” but “when.” Particularly when a company is consumer-facing, any publicized data breach is likely to be followed by consumer class action lawsuits. For…
Category: Of Note
A Closer Look at CISA’s Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Provisions
David Fagan, Ashden Fein and David Bender write: As we reported on October 27, the U.S. Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (“CISA,” S. 754). If enacted into law, CISA would, among other things, establish a voluntary framework for the sharing of cybersecurity threat information between and among the federal government and private entities. CISA must…
ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Alexander J. Martin reports: Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what it claims is a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems. Switzerland-based ProtonMail offers an encrypted webmail system able to…
Hacking of Twitter accounts for political purposes continues
In today’s headlines: ISIS Supporter Hacks 54,000 Twitter Accounts and Posts Details of Heads of the CIA and FBI (The Hacker News) and Pro-Palestinian Hackers Took over Twitter Account of Israeli Ha’aretz Newspaper (HackRead)
The ‘Dox’ of More than 2,300 Government Employees by CWA Might Be Worse Than We Thought
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai reports that hackers who call themselves CWA (“Crackas With Attitude”) may have done more damage to the FBI than even they realized when they dumped information last night: On Thursday, the teenage hackers who broke into the CIA director’s personal AOL email account struck again, releasing a list of almost 2,400 names, emails and phone numbers…
Hackers who hacked CIA Director’s personal e-mail claim hack of FBI database
Nathan Ingraham reports: Earlier this year, a hacking group broke into the personal email account of CIA director John Brenner and published a host of sensitive attachments that it got its hands on (yes, Brenner should not have been using his AOL email address for CIA business). Now, Wired reports the group has hit a much more sensitive and presumably secure target:…