When experts in a field accuse you of promoting “snake oil,” is the proper response to: Double down and argue with them Sue them for not showing you proper respect after you paid $115,000 to be able to present at a conference without prior review by organizers, or Slink away and lick your wounds? Robert…
City of Norman, OK temporarily suspends utility payment portal; ditches Click2Gov after another potential security incident
The City of Norman, Oklahoma has suspended its online portal for paying utility bills after they were notified of a potential security incident involving Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies. At this point, the city seems to have had enough with Click2Gov security issues. The city is currently in the process of switching over to another…
Mysterious hacker dumps database of infamous IronMarch neo-nazi forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A mysterious hacker has published today a database dump of one of the internet’s most infamous neo-nazi meeting places — the IronMarch forum. The data published today includes a full copy of its content, including sensitive details such as emails, IP addresses, usernames, and private messages. Read more on ZDNet.
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 ‘grudge’ leak of payroll data ‘grossly unjust’
Graeme Burton reports: Morrisons has told the Supreme Court in London that it should not be held either directly or vicariously liable for the 2014 payroll data leak of almost 100,000 employees. The leak was traced to its senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton, who held a grudge against the company following a disciplinary hearing over the…
NZ: FMA privacy breach extends to six cases, KPMG to investigate regulator
The New Zealand Herald reports: The Financial Markets Authority is investigating how six cases where sensitive personal information provided to the regulator may have been accessed by third parties. The finance industry watchdog was left scrambling to shore up its online privacy settings after the Herald revealed that emails relating to a confidential complaint were published…
Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national charged in plot to spy on users for Saudi government
From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced United States…