I posted this to PogoWasRight.org last week but probably should have posted it here, too: Simon Bradshaw of University of London – Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Christopher Millard of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies; Oxford Internet Institute, and Ian Walden of Queen Mary University of London, School of Law have a working paper…
Category: Of Note
Great resource: Cloutage.org
The good folks at Open Security Foundation have created a database of cloud computing incidents. The incidents are tagged as “AutoFail,” “DataLoss,” “Hack,” “Outage,” or “Vulnerability,” permitting researchers and professionals to analyze different types of incidents. As of this morning, there are 222 incidents in the database as they have backfilled some earlier incidents…
California hospital fined $250k for tardy breach notice to state (updated)
If you’re supposed to report a breach to the state of California, you’d darn well better report it in a timely fashion. HealthLeaders Media reports that Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University has been fined $250,000 by the California Department of Public Health for failing to report a patient records breach <del>by April 23</del>. The…
Report: RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Four Years’ Probation
Robert McMillan reports: The mastermind behind one of the biggest hacking paydays in history has been sentenced to four years’ probation and an US$8.9 million fine, according to published reports. Victor Pleshchuk, 28, was sentenced to four years’ probation on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg News. He is considered the leader of a group of criminals who…
HEI Hotels & Resorts notifies customers of POS compromise (updated)
Lawyers for Connecticut-based HEI Hospitality (HEI Hotels & Resorts) have informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that HEI discovered that a “vulnerability in an information system at certain of its hotel properties may have been exploited, and credit card information related to certain transactions occurring between March 25 and April 17, 2010 may have…
Delaware retiree sues Aon, citing “irreparable harm” (UPDATE)
From Courthouse News: Aon Consulting disclosed online the names and Social Security numbers of 22,000 state retirees, a class action claims in New Castle County Court. The class claims Aon did not bother to scrub personal information before posting online a request for proposals from insurers. “Gail Slaughter’s identity is likely for sale on the…