KSTP reports: On Wednesday, state leaders addressed two recent data breaches at the Department of Human Services. […] “Could you please try and help us connect why there was such a failure here of four months before folks were notified of the compromising situation of their private data?” asked Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, (R) Big Lake….
Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A former Equifax engineer who coded parts of the company’s breach notification website for last year’s security incident was sentenced this week to eight months of home confinement and restitution of ill-gotten funds after using insider information about the Equifax breach to make over $75,000 from insider trading. The sentence was passed…
Server cleanup at URMC renders 2.6M archived files useless
Patti Singer reports: A mishap during routine server cleanup at the University of Rochester Medical Center several months ago has made it impossible for staff in the affected departments to open 2.6 million files. The files were on a server used by finance, research and operations to archive documents that had not been used for at…
Hackers accused of ties to Russia hit three East European companies: ESET researchers
Jack Stubbs reports: Hackers have infected three energy and transport companies in Ukraine and Poland with sophisticated new malware and may be planning destructive cyber attacks, a software security firm said on Wednesday. Read more on Reuters.
Cybersecurity for Small Business: New FTC Resources
Free Webinar this Thursday: Learn about the FTC’s new cybersecurity for small business campaign, including a new website, fact sheets, quizzes and videos. Hear how to use these tools to help improve cybersecurity for small businesses. Get a glimpse of some of the topics like phishing, ransomware, email authentication, choosing a web host, physical security…
The 3 Biggest Data Security Takeaways From The 11th Circuit Decision In FTC v. LabMD
After providing some history the LabMD enforcement action by FTC, and the former’s appeal to the 11th Circuit, Tom Kulik of Scheef & Stone, LLP outlines what he considers the three biggest data security takeaways from the case. You can read his article on Above the Law.