So if you want to prove a hacking bill is a bad idea, engaging in black hat/grey hat activities may not be the best way to persuade people. Tom Corwin reports: A hacking group upset with Georgia legislation that could criminalize what they do targeted Georgia Southern University and two Augusta restaurants in an ongoing…
The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
Nicholas Schmidle reports: One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, on a cybersecurity team. At the time, Sandia was managed by the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. When hundreds of computers…
A Notice Regarding a Recent Data Security Incident Affecting Boise State University students
For those keeping track: we had this incident filed solely under Fresno State, but had counted it in those incidents involving health/medical info. The incident had been included in our March 2018 analyses. — DataBreaches.net Boise State University received notice recently from Fresno State University that a theft on their campus may have potentially involved…
GoAir sues former MD over data theft
Budget airline GoAir has filed a suit against its former CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, accusing him of data theft. Prock-Schauer, who joined GoAir rival IndiGo as its Chief Operating Officer starting February 1, was sued by GoAir in the Bombay High Court on February 13. The next hearing is expected in June. The court documents show…
Thai police seize Lazarus Group server
Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Police in Thailand have seized a computer server operated by a notorious hacker group from North Korea. The group affected has been blamed for the infamous Sony Pictures hack in 2014. Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ThaiCERT) announced that it took control of the equipment that the security firm McAfee had linked to Hidden…
Supreme Court to rule in Google referrer header privacy settlement case
David Zwier reports: The US Supreme Court granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in three cases Monday, including a dispute over a settlement in a Google privacy case and a Missouri death penalty case. In Frank v. Gaos [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the question before the court is, “in what circumstances a cy pres award of…