From the so-you-were-serious-about-that-SCPO? dept. GeoffBennett reports: A convicted computer hacker who was jailed after causing losses of £27 million is back in jail – without committing further crime. Jay Moore admitted fraud offences and was jailed for three years in 2012, Bristol Crown Court heard. But when he was gifted a trip to Dubai he…
Horizon says privacy breach could affect up to 170K N.J. customers
Susan K. Livio reports that a vendor error has affected as many as 170,000 BCBS members in New Jersey: Some benefit letters mailed to as many as 170,000 Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey customers over a recent three-day period included the names, policy numbers and the physician information of other policy holders — a…
UK: Ealing Council loses ‘sensitive’ personal data after social worker leaves court documents on roof of car and drives off
David Rivers reports: The personal information of almost 30 people was lost after an Ealing Council social worker left court documents on the roof of her car and drove off. Personal data relating to 27 people including 14 children, some of it sensitive, was lost following the blunder in February and have never been recovered. Read more…
Wang Chau consultants got off easy over confidential leak, Hong Kong lawmakers tell officials
Shirley Zhao reports: Lawmakers accused the government of being too lenient in punishing a consultancy firm that leaked confidential internal data to a private developer after barring it from bidding on government projects for only three months. Read more on South China Morning Post.
UK: Teenager admits to seven hacking offences in Talk Talk data breach
Sam Russell reports: A 17-year-old boy has admitted seven hacking offences linked to the TalkTalk data breach in October 2015. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Norwich on November 3 last year and charged with breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990 following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber…
Security Researchers Want to Hide Your Data in ‘Cyberfog’
Michael Byrne reports: The expression “fog of war” refers to the dramatic increase in uncertainty—a decrease in situational awareness—encountered by soldiers and commanders in military operations. Where is the enemy? What does it consist of? Where is my own army in relation? This was a very literal limitation prior to aircraft, and, later, satellite surveillance. Intelligence came…