Rapaport News reports: India’s Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) have formed a joint committee to investigate the alteration of Gemological Institute of America (GIA) diamond grading reports, according to The Times of India (TOI). The GIA last week published the names and suspended the accounts of 19 firms implicated in the…
Genome researchers hit back at infosec bods’ ‘network vuln’ claims
Alexander J. Martin reports that there’s a response to a report of vulnerabilities previously noted on this site. The Global Alliance for Genomics & Health has downplayed vulnerabilities found in its genome-sharing network by two Stanford researchers. Carlos Bustamante and Suyash Shringarpure, postdoctoral scholars in genetics at Stanford, had raised concerns about The Beacon Project’s…
Rep. Jan Schakowsky to offer rival bill on data security
Cory Bennett reports: Another lawmaker is taking a crack at a bill to set nationwide data security standards. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in a Tuesday hearing that she was preparing a bill “that would require strong security standards for a wide array of personal data,” such as geolocation data, health records, biometric details, and…
Anonymous denies releasing incorrect Ku Klux Klan member information
Nicky Woolf and Zach Stafford report: The hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has denied involvement in a data-dump on Monday that incorrectly outed several politicians as being members of the Ku Klux Klan. On 29 October, the group said on a Twitter account called Operation KKK and through a YouTube video that it had obtained a list of names of…
KeePass looter: Password plunderer rinses pwned sysadmins
Darren Pauli reports: Kiwi hacker Denis Andzakovic has developed an application that steals password vaults from the popular local storage vault KeePass. The jeu de mots KeyFarce works when a user has logged into their vault, and will dump the contents to a file that attackers can steal. It is no death knell for KeePass or other…
Two arrests made after confidential information on pope is stolen
Shelley Chandler reports: Investigators with the Vatican City police force arrested a high-ranking member of the clergy along with a Vatican employee for leaking confidential documents. Read more on Wireless Goodness.