Ellen Messmer reports: An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance. “The majority of our analysis of data-breach investigations — 76% — revealed that the third-party responsible for…
IN: Computers stolen from government office had encryption in place
Daniel Miller reports that 10 laptops loaded with classified and personal information were swiped over the weekend from the Department of Child Services in Hendricks County, Indiana, but thankfully, they were encrypted. Read more on WISH.
Hackers Target Your Personal Info in DMV Database
Steven Dial reports from South Carolina: Hackers are trying to steal personal information from the DMV database and most of them are from another country. “It is cause for alarm for us and our information technology folks,” said JR Sanderson. Since January hackers have tried to get into the DMV database more than 100 times….
AU: St George distributes client emails
Leonie Lamont reports: St George Margin Lending services has shared the email addresses of some 500 of its clients with other clients in a mass email sent out by the bank. A copy of the email, in which the addresses are contained, was sent to BusinessDay by one client. ‘‘Big privacy screw-up: It lists 500…
FL: Valencia College apologizes after student personal information exposed online by contractor error
Valencia College is apologizing after a mistake allowed the personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students to be posted online. The school said an Excel spreadsheet with the students’ names, address, date of birth, and student IDs was listed online on a password-protected website. Eventually, it lost its password protection, which means anyone could…
US ISPs block hacker probes: Swedish police
The following was originally posted on PogoWasRight.org: The Swedish National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) has called for new international laws to catch hackers on the internet, after US internet service providers refused to divulge information on the weekend’s attack on government websites. “The problem is that the internet is an international phenomenon and legislation is national….