Brian Krebs reports: The Defense Contract Management Agency, the U.S. federal government entity responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is responding to a suspected cybersecurity breach and has pulled a number of its servers offline while the investigation continues, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. So far, there’s no evidence that any personal…
TX: Police investigating access to district files by Lake Dallas High School students
Okay, hacking or otherwise improperly accessing a school district’s files to misuse kids’ lunch money accounts may not sound like the crime of the century, but when a few teens accessed a school district’s files, what else did they do, and what mayhem could they have caused? Megan Gray-Hatfield and Britney Tabor report: Corinth police are…
White Plains bank teller convicted of ID theft (updated)
Jane Lerner reports: A teller at a White Plains bank was convicted Tuesday of stealing customer data and selling it to an identity-theft ring. Nadia Figueroa, 24, of the Bronx, faces between two and six years in state prison following her felony grand larceny conviction in Westchester County Court in White Plains. […] Figueroa admitted…
Attempted hack of Jacksonville Aviation Authority disclosed
WJXT in Florida is reporting (video) that the FBI is actively investigating an attempted hack of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority on November 26, shortly before Thanksgving. In a statement to the news station, JAA indicated that it believes the attack was unsuccessful and will continue to believe so unless it hears otherwise from the FBI, but…
Jeb Bush probably won’t be running on a privacy platform after doxxing everyone
Maybe one of the qualifications for President in the Constitution should be: “Has the common sense not to expose everyone’s personal information to the world.” T.C. Sottek reports: Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida….
New Mexico needs a data breach notification law, but is this the right one?
Will New Mexico finally join the ranks of states that require data breach notification or will it remain one of only three holdouts? Dan Mayfield reports that Rep. Bill Rehm has introduced a bill to require businesses to notify consumers in the event of a breach. Rehm tried to pass a similar bill last year but got pushback from…