Maeve Sheehan reports: Lawyers acting for women caught up in the CervicalCheck debacle have reported Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to the Data Protection Commission. Mr Donnelly has been accused of an alleged data breach and “unauthorised” use of the women’s home addresses by writing to them directly about the CervicalCheck tribunal. Stephen Donnelly wrote to…
So this site has been 404 a bit….
If you are a regular reader, you likely noticed that since yesterday, my sites have been 404 at times. At first, I thought I broke something, because I am truly quite capable of breaking things. But then the sites came back… and stayed up.. until today, when they went down again. Firewall logs show a…
As ransomware stalks the manufacturing sector, victims are still keeping quiet
Sean Lyngaas reports: Halvor Molland was asleep on a brisk night in Oslo, Norway’s capital, two years ago when his phone rang around 3 a.m. The computer servers of Norsk Hydro, the global aluminum producer where Molland is senior vice president for communications, had seized up as a crippling ransomware infection spread through the company’s networks….
How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal
Zack Whittaker provides a follow-up on the scandal involving the government of Jamaica, a contractor called Amber Group, and the multiple security issues with JamCOVID. Readers may recall that at the time of Zack’s original reporting, the government and contractor downplayed the incident and a minister made thinly veiled threats directed at Zack and TechCrunch…
Phone numbers for 533 million Facebook users leaked on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A threat actor has published the phone numbers and account details for an estimated 533 million Facebook users —about a fifth of the entire social network’s user pool— on a publicly accessible cybercrime forum. According to samples reviewed by The Record today, the leaked data includes information that users posted on their profiles. Information…
Buying Breached Data: When Is It Ethical?
Jeremy Kirk reports: Security practitioners often tread a fine and not entirely well-defined legal line when conducting data breach research. This research can also pose ethical questions when commercial sources for stolen data fall into a gray area. Kirk’s article on DataBreach Today provides a good overview of the issue. And I totally agree with…