Highlights of a new GAO study also addressing VA infosecurity: What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken actions to mitigate previously identified vulnerabilities, but it has not fully addressed these weaknesses: Incident response: VA took actions to contain and eradicate the effects of a network intrusion detected in 2012, but it could…
Hackers went after Detroit database, official
Nathan Bomey reports: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan told the 2014 North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit crowd Monday that cyberattackers recently seized control of an immaterial city database and sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in a digital currency called bitcoin. The attack went nowhere, but Duggan said it was an example of the…
Florida student aid accounts used in ID theft affecting 644 victims
AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…
Stolen Laptop Doesn't Warrant $116M In Damages, Alere Says
In the latest development in the lawsuit over the Alere Home Monitoring breach that affected over 100,000 patients, Alere now asks the court to dismiss all the remaining charges under the Confidential Medical Information Act. The court had previously tossed the proposed class action lawsuit, and I suspect the court will grant Alere’s motion to…
Cafe Press subsidiary hacked; photo service on Target site compromised
Cafe Press subsidiary EZ Prints is notifying customers that they recently detected an intrusion in their system that may have compromised card payment information. Only customers placing orders between September 22 and October 23 need to be concerned about this incident. The intruders reportedly exploited an unspecified vulnerability that EZ Print has identified and removed. The…
Audit: Portland, Oregon fails to comply with credit card data security standards
Fox12 in Oregon reports:- Portlanders who use their credit card to pay for parking meters and other city services may want to take a look at the city auditor’s latest report on payment card data security. The audit found Portland fails to comply with the industry’s data security standard when it comes to payments made…