Rick Karlin reports: The supervisor of a cluster of Long Island group homes for the disabled is charged with stealing the identity of a client. Blossom Officer Thame is charged with using a client’s name to open a PSE&G electricity account. She is a treatment team leader for the State Office of People with Developmental…
Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi password with your friends’ friends
Simon Rockman reports: A Windows 10 feature, Wi-Fi Sense, smells like a significant security risk: it shares access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks with the user’s contacts. So giving a wireless password to one person grants access to everyone who knows them. […] Wi-Fi Sense doesn’t reveal the password to your family, friends, acquaintances, and the chap…
Ca: Detour Gold warns former, current employees of data breach
Rachelle Younglai reports: Detour Gold Corp. is reaching out to former and current employees to tell them that their personal information may have been compromised due to a cyber attack. Detour, which operates one gold mine in Ontario, did not say when its server was hacked or how many employees have been affected by the…
JPMorgan Reassigns Security Team Leader a Year After Data Breach
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: The executive in charge of protecting JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s computer network from hackers has been reassigned, after a year on the job that included controversy over his handling of a massive data breach and the departure of several top security team members. Greg Rattray, a former U.S. Air…
Ex-president of Charlotte car dealership receives 5 years probation in ID theft case
Rick Rothacker reports: The former president of a Charlotte-based classic car dealership was sentenced last week to five years probation on federal mail fraud and identity theft charges, according to court documents filed in federal court in Cincinnati. For more than 22 years, Joseph M. Carroll used an Ohio man’s Social Security number to take…
TeamGhostShell is back… with over 400 databases dumped
Lee J. writes: If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. […] So far there has been 444 different databases dumped from sites and sub-domains mostly being education and government based….