Emily van Velthooven reports: A Waikato woman, who chose to remain anonymous, contacted ONE News claiming she had received an email from BNZ disclosing bank information for a local business. She says she received an email on Tuesday morning listing the account details of a large business. “It had the date, bank account names, balances,…
Unorthodox Muddy Waters Partnership Targets St. Jude’s Devices
More on a situation I noted yesterday. This approach to using/monetizing vulnerability discoveries is downright scary…. but will it work to improve security? Here’s one of your must-reads for today. Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: When a team of hackers discovered that St. Jude Medical Inc.’s pacemakers and defibrillators had security vulnerabilities that could put…
6 in 10 UK Universities Hit by Ransomware, 4 in 10 Targeted Multiple Times
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Six out of ten UK universities admitted to falling victims to ransomware attacks, according to mobile security firm SentinelOne, who has sent Freedom of Information (FOI) request to 71 institutions across Britain. The company says that 13 universities refused to answer its request for information, claiming the response would damage their commercial…
Fines levied in Danish media snooping case
Ray W writes: Aller Media, the owner of Danish gossip magazine Se & Hor, was fined 10 million kroner [approximately $1.5 million] – and the magazine’s former managing editor, Kim Bretov, and former news editor, Lise Bondesen, were each given suspended jail sentences –on Thursday for illegally buying the credit card information of celebrities. Read…
NAIC Task Force Releases Revised Draft Insurance Data Security Model Law
John S. Pruitt, Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik and John Allen Zumpetta of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP write: On August 17, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) Cybersecurity (EX) Task Force (the Task Force) released for comment a revised draft Insurance Data Security Model Law (the Model Law). This Model Law purports to “establish exclusive standards…
U.S. fines big Nebraska bank over credit card, ID theft marketing
Jonathan Stempel reports: First National Bank of Omaha will pay $35.25 million of fines and refunds to settle charges by two U.S. regulators that it duped hundreds of thousands of customers into buying credit card and identity theft services they did not want, understand or receive. It also apologized to customers. Thursday’s settlements with the…