Over on the Daily Dot this morning, I have a follow-up to my earlier report on an FBI raid on Justin Shafer. There was a lot of anger towards the FBI and Patterson Dental in response to the raid, and I pulled together some of my favorite comments or responses from around the Internet. But more importantly,…
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LinkedIn’s disturbing breach notice
Computerworld editor Evan Schuman has an opinion piece that begins: Late last Wednesday (May 25), LinkedIn casually sent a note to its customers that opened with one of the least-calming phrases possible: “You may have heard reports recently about a security issue involving LinkedIn.” It continued to say, in effect, “Let us now distort and…
EHR/EMR hacks impact Connecticut and Pennsylvania patients
Stamford Podiatry Group in Stamford, Connecticut is notifying patients that their network was comprised and electronic health records (EHR) may have been accessed and copied. Although forensics examination was unable to determine with certainty exactly what data were exfiltrated, Dr. Rui DiMelo, Vice President of Stamford Podiatry Group, informed patients that unauthorized persons obtained “covert”…
If you haven’t enabled the chip reader yet, fraudulent charges may not be reimbursed
I’m not really surprised by a story I read today, as I go to a lot of businesses that tell me they still haven’t enabled the chip reader on their Point of Sale (POS) systems, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a report of a business penalized it for it by a bank….
WA: Northshore School District students receive emails with inappropriate messages
Janet Kim reports: The Northshore School District is updating parents that student’s emails were not hacked, instead were spammed after first warning parents that an outsider gained access to student emails. Now students are locked out of their emails with just weeks left in the school year, as the district investigates this serious security breach….
Pacific Gas and Electric database exposed; Company claims data “fake”
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has reported on yet another misconfigured database. This one belongs to PG& E in California. Whether the database contains real data or not is something the Department of Homeland Security should investigate, as the company tells Chris the data are “fake,” and Chris does not believe them, partly because entities…