Oops? Art Raymond reports: A vigilant UDOT Express Pass customer discovered a glaring security breach in the third-party website that manages pass accounts, but state officials don’t yet know if the personal information of approximately 21,000 current and former customers has been compromised. That information on customers who have purchased passes for accessing HOV lanes…
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Local Salvation Army website updated after personal information released
WRDW reports: Well that’s me right there and that’s pretty horrible.” It’s the last information anyone would want popping up on a stranger’s phone. But that’s exactly what Sterling Gray saw when I showed him the Augusta Salvation Army’s Auto Auction website. “It’s easy enough if you are knowledgeable how to go out and find…
Cracking the Code
Jason Leopold reports: One late morning in May 2016, the leaders of the Democratic National Committee huddled around a packed conference table and stared at Robert Johnston. The former Marine Corps captain gave his briefing with unemotional military precision, but what he said was so unnerving that a high-level DNC official curled up in a…
Charities unprepared for cyber attack risk
Recently, in an encrypted chat, a spokesperson for TheDarkOverlord (TDO) commented to me how their attack on Little Red Door in Indiana is still getting media attention. Not surprisingly to me, attacking a charity that helps cancer patients seemed to generate a particularly strong emotional response among members of the pubic. Well, that and threatening…
Montana district hacked, threatened by TheDarkOverlord; offers lessons to Spokane-area schools
There are a few interesting details on the Montana (Flathead) attack by TheDarkOverlord (TDO) in an article by Eli Francovich in The Spokesman-Review. It sounds like TDO used methods they’ve used in the past and did a good job of covering their digital footprints. I’ve started looking into the Flathead/Columbia Falls incident a bit more…
Researchers Question Previous Health Data Breach Study
Elizabeth Snell reports: Claiming that larger healthcare facilities have a higher risk of experiencing a health data breach “neglects inherent biases in data collection and reporting practices,” according to a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Vanderbilt University researchers Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Mark E. Frisse, MD, and Bradley Malin, PhD, wrote a letter to the editor in response…