A video has surfaced that main media seems to be picking up on, the video which claims that the infamous hacking group lulzsec is making a return. The video which was posted on the fawkessecurity youtube account sports some other interesting hash tags that have raised further questions. As for lulzsec coming back, we would like to remind…
Teboho Masoleng Sentenced to 15years for cyber crimes
At the start of the year south African police cracked down on a cyber gang who was in the process of stealing millions from hacked and phished bank accounts. As a result of this the first person has now been sentenced to serve 15years in jail for his part in the cyber crimes. In a report coming from a…
Pa. Firm Claims Ex-Partner Used Portable Drives to Steal Client Files
Gina Passarella reports on a case where a law firm alleges massive data theft by a former partner and others while the defendants vigorously deny the allegations. Interestingly (to me, anyway), the complaint incorporates reference to the use of Dropbox. You can read about the case on Law Technology News. And for today’s musical accompaniment:
UK: Dame Fiona Caldicott to review patient data confidentiality
The people currently responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient information in the UK are known as the Caldicott Guardians, so named after Dame Fiona Caldicott. Dame Fiona will now lead a new independent review into patient privacy. The new review is the result of recommendations from the NHS Future Forum, a group of medical…
Pointer: Verizon DBIR 2012
The Verizon report is out. You can download it here. More after I have a chance to read it and round up some analyses/comments. Right off the top, I can see that their findings are more consistent (but somewhat more extreme, perhaps) than what we find in DataLossDB.org, and significantly different than what Ponemon and…
Follow-up: Anger follows University of Tampa data breach
Rob Shaw reports that some people are angry at U. Tampa’s decision not to offer free credit monitoring services to some of those whose data were available on the web for months: In addition, the records of another 22,722 faculty, students and staff — from the years 2000 through 2011 — also were potentially accessible,…