From the how-many-people-were-in-there dept., Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Russian hackers, using spear-phishing attacks, successfully breached the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment in November 2014, and continue to have on-demand access to Sony’s network, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Taia Global. But it’s not clear if those hackers unleashed the malware attack and data…
Category: Of Note
The FTC’s requested budget: implications for data security enforcement cases?
I was never good with budgets, but damned if I can figure out FTC’s budget request to Congress for Fiscal 2016. Is it seeking funds to expand the number of data security enforcement cases it undertakes or is the budget based on simply maintaining the current level(s)? So when @FTC didn’t respond to my tweeted inquiry,…
FBI put Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ Jeremy Hammond on terrorism watchlist
Ed Pilkington reports: The prominent Anonymous “hacktivist” Jeremy Hammond, who participated in some of the hacking collective’s most audacious cyber acts, was placed by the FBI on a terrorism watchlist, the Daily Dot reported on Monday. The internet news website obtained a leaked document from the New York state division of criminal justice services that shows Hammond…
U. of Chicago still compromised, data for sale on underground – researchers (updated)
On January 24, this blog reported that Carbonic had claimed to have hacked the University of Chicago. The U. of Chicago never responded to a notification and inquiry this blog sent via e-mail on January 22nd. Yesterday, SLC Security reported that the university is still leaking information and is still vulnerable: During a recent receive (sic)…
Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display
Vivian Yee reports: No lives were lost in the huge fire that gutted a storage building on the Williamsburg waterfront over the weekend. But the flames put plenty of lives on display as the crumpling warehouse belched up its contents: decades’ worth of charred medical records, court transcripts, lawyers’ letters, sonograms, bank checks and more….
Experian ProtectMyID didn’t protect him from ID theft – Target customer
As this blogger and Brian Krebs have both pointed out on a number of occasions, Experian’s ProtectMyID may only monitor Experian’s own credit reports and not those of Equifax, TransUnion, or Innovis. Now one consumer seems to have learned that lesson the hard way. Consider the offer Target made to its customers following their massive breach…