Brian Krebs reports: An investigation into a string of credit card breaches at dozens of car wash locations across the United States illustrates the challenges facing local law enforcement as they seek to connect the dots between cybercrime and local gang activity that increasingly cross multiple domestic and international borders. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. Some of the…
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NYC parents of school children: wake up and speak up to protect your child’s information!
Several years ago, I wrote to the NYC Comptroller’s Office and asked them to re-audit the NYC Department of Education on information technology/data security. To my knowledge, they haven’t done so. If you are a parent of a student in the NYC schools, this should concern you because the previous audit and two re-audits showed…
NY: East Quogue Union Free School District – audit
I’ve occasionally posted audits of school districts in New York State conducted by the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Yesterday, Comptroller DiNapoli released some new audits yesterday. One of them involved an audit of information technology at the East Quogue Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31,…
Insurer for Michael’s Stores sues to avoid having to defend Michael’s
And now Safety National Casualty Corp., insurers of Michael’s Stores, have sued to avoid having to cover Michael’s against class action lawsuits stemming from their breach. Story behind paywall at Law360.com.
Metropolitan Companies hacked; member personal information accessed
The Metropolitan Companies, Inc. which includes Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Metlang LLC, Metropolitan Hospitality, Inc.,CTI Metropolitan LLC, and Metropolitan Temporaries provides staffing resources for various organizations. They are in the process of notifying those who obtained work through them or who applied for work that a hacker appears to have accessed their systems and removed…
Bank not liable for customer’s $440,000 cybertheft
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A Missouri escrow firm that lost $440,000 in a 2010 cyberheist cannot hold its bank responsible, an appeals court ruled this week. The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s decision this month affirmed a lower court ruling in the case. The appeals court also held that the escrow firm can be…