Dell Cameron reports: We’ve seen a lot of data breaches this year: some big, some small, some that are dangerous, and some that are just embarrassing. But if we were to name one as the creepiest data breach of 2017, […]
Sep 222017
Sep 222017
The Chronicle reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has confirmed that a data leak has left 1000 Toowoomba residents vulnerable to identity fraud. There are few details about how the security breach occurred, but the OAIC confirmed […]
Sep 222017
Protenus’s Breach Barometer for August notes that hacking incidents accounted for 54.5% of the health data breaches disclosed in August and 95% of the 673,934 breached records for August incidents. Also of note: Extortion demands and non-automated ransom demands also continue to plague […]
Sep 202017
Kade N. Olsen and Craig A. Newman report on a court opinion in the D-Link case – a case that addresses some of the issues also raised in LabMD vs. FTC: Yesterday, a District Court in Northern California weighed in […]
Sep 202017
By the end of 2016, a number of journalists and/or their employers had made an ethical decision not to report on hacks and in-progress extortion attempts by TheDarkOverlord. But did the lack of coverage enable the criminals to expand their […]