Shamoil T. Shipchandler of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has a great commentary about how our country is doing on cybersecurity and privacy. It begins: When it comes right down to it, we are about as bad at cybersecurity as Twitter’s CFO is at Twitter or North Korea is at coming up with new political slogans to commemorate its 70th anniversary. As…
Beyond Stuxnet and Flame: Equation ‘most advanced’ cybercriminal gang recorded (updated)
Charlie Osborne reports: Kaspersky Labs has discovered the “ancestor” of Stuxnet and Flame, a threat actor which surpasses everything else in complexity and technique sophistication. On Monday at the Kaspersky Labs Security Analyst Summit, the firm unveiled research concerning the existence of a cyberattack team dubbed The Equation Group. The group, which Kaspersky Lab Global…
Documents obtained by House Oversight may throw a monkey wrench into government's case against LabMD
On February 12, FTC Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell admitted two letters from the House Oversight Committee (OGR) as exhibits in FTC v. LabMD. The letters concern OGR’s investigation of Tiversa, a firm whose statements the FTC relied upon in its data security enforcement case against LabMD (see FTC case files and previous coverage on PHIprivacy.net). Admission of the exhibits…
PA: Hundreds of court documents found scattered in Philadelphia
ABC reports: Documents with personal information, such as social security numbers and signatures, were found strewn all over the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia on Tuesday. We found them after responding to a viewer tip. Action News looked into where they documents came from, and on Wednesday the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court took responsibility. […]…
UK: Borough council admits data security breaches
Richard Rush reports: Contact details of members of the public who had put in Freedom of Information requests to Charnwood Borough Council were accidently leaked on to the internet in one of three data breaches by the authority during the past five years. Other documents accidently uploaded on to the borough council’s website were lists…
Notorious 8chan “subboard” has history wiped after federal judge’s doxing [Updated]
Sam Machovech reports: On Monday, imageboard site 8chan’s “baphomet” subboard, an Internet destination known for hosting aggressive “doxing” posts, received a major history wipe the day after one of its users posted the personal information of a federal judge in the Silk Road case. Archived posts sent to Ars Technica contained the full mailing address, phone number, and…