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AU: Immigration removals delayed pending assessment of data breach

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Patrick Gunning of King & Wood Mallesons writes: The Immigration department’s well publicised 2014 data security breach continues to cause difficulties for the Department. In late January and mid February the courts have issued interlocutory injunctions preventing the removal from Australia of certain asylum seekers pending the outcome of administrative law challenges to decisions to refuse…

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Illinois Attorney General seeks stronger data breach bill

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently drafted legislation to strengthen the state’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). Originally passed in 2005 at Attorney General Madigan’s direction, PIPA made Illinois among the first states in the country to require entities that suffer a data breach to notify Illinois residents if the breached information included residents’ drivers’ license…

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Recap of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Katherine Gasztonyi reports: Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp.The court focused on several themes: First, whether Congress has entrusted the FTC to define new unfair practices, whether the FTC has declared that unreasonable cybersecurity practices are unfair, and whether the FTC is asking the…

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The Daily Mail did what U.S. media didn’t do: FOI the U.S. Education Department for Insider Breaches

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Dissent

From the good-for-them dept.: The Daily Mail in the U.K. filed a Freedom of Information request with the U.S. Education Department and obtained over 100 pages of responsive documents to their request for records relating to employee misuse of department computers. They have made the entire file available on their site. Note that this is…

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Ca: Rogers hacked by TeamHans, customer contracts and sensitive corporate e-mails dumped

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Dissent

Hackers calling themselves TeamHans have hacked the giant Canadian communications and media firm, Rogers, and dumped a lot of corporate proprietary data to prove it. According to the hackers, who announced the hack on Twitter where they tweet as @TeamHans_, the dump includes: Contracts with corporate customers Sensitive corporate e-mails Sensitive documents regarding Rogers (corporate…

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FORK ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Dissent

Kieren McCarthy reports: Uber has subpoenaed GitHub to unmask netizens suspected of hacking its database of taxi drivers. The ride-booking app maker is trying to force GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited a particular gist post between March and September last year. That gist is believed to have contained a login…

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