Just because a hack is no longer in the news, it doesn’t mean it still isn’t having a major impact on its target. The TV5Monde hack was apparently much more damaging than some of us had imagined at the time. Doug Drinkwater reports: TV5Monde was very visibly hacked back in April when the French news channel, which…
Category: Of Note
Steam Hit by Major Security Breach, Many Accounts Hacked
Steam (Valve), who has had a number of data breaches over the years – including one that impacted 35 million users – seems to have had another breach. Arash Fekri reports: Reports are still blurry and information keeps coming out – Valve themselves are yet to make an official statement on the issue – but according to…
NIST releases draft guidelines for protecting patient data on mobile devices; comments sought
Mohana Ravindranath reports: The federal government is attempting to ensure that doctors don’t inadvertently compromise patient data when they use smartphones to access electronic health records. The National Institutes of Standards in Technology this week released a step-by-step guide for hospitals and IT professionals, listing ways to secure the connection between devices and electronic health records. NIST is collecting public comment on…
More details on the FTC-LifeLock case
In light of the FTC’s action against LifeLock, and the latter’s response, I thought it might be interesting to post this statement from LifeLock’s 10-Q SEC filing for the period ending March 31, 2015: On March 13, 2014, we received a request from the FTC for documents and information related to our compliance with the…
Update on Medical Informatics Engineering breach (update3)
I’ve previously reported on the breach at Medical Informatics Engineering that affected a number of their Medical Informatics Engineering and NoMoreClipboard clients. Today, they provided an update on the breach. Much of it is a rehash of the previous notification, but there are some additional details on the types of information compromised: The affected data relating to…
One in four US hackers is an FBI informer
Ed Pilkington reports: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such…