Everything old is new again? Warwick Ashford reports: Businesses are at serious risk of data loss and compliance violations due to risky file-sharing practices, a study by the Ponemon Institute has revealed. Business leaders are failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing and regular breaches of security policies by staff, according to the study commissioned…
Category: Of Note
Drupal warns unless you patched within seven hours, you’re hacked
Chris Duckett reports: Drupal’s security team has released a “public service announcement” calling upon all users of the Drupal content management framework to consider their sites as compromised, and to start afresh, unless their sites were patched against the SQL injection attack revealed two weeks ago within seven hours of the announcement of the vulnerability. “You should…
Quebec court rules in lost personal data case: no fraud, no theft, no class action
Prachi Shah of Clyde & Co. provides an update on litigation stemming from a lost device case previously noted on this blog: Paul Sofio v. OCRCVM (IIROC), 2014 QCCS 4061 (under appeal) – The Quebec Superior Court refuses to authorize a class action where the loss of personal data did not result in fraud or identity…
Pirate Bay founder guilty of hacking CSC; largest hacking case in Danish history
The Local reports: The largest hacking case in Danish history has ended with guilty verdicts for Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant ‘JLT’. Warg, the Swedish co-founder of Pirate Bay, was found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of IT giant CSC between February and August of 2012. JLT was…
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Releases Data Breach Report; 18.5 Million Californians’ Personal Information Put at Risk
From California’s Attorney General: LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today released the second annual report detailing the 167 data breaches reported to the Attorney General’s office in 2013 that impacted18.5 million Californians by putting their personal information at risk. The report is accompanied by recommendations from the Attorney General for consumers, businesses…
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters
Michael Isikoff reports: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called “second leaker” who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list to a journalist closely associated with ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, according to law enforcement and intelligence sources who have been briefed on the…