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 January 19th, 2012 by lhaas
We’ve been preaching for years that organizations needs to take a more proactive approach to their security. Services, such as our liveForensics, add additional layers of security to protect against such breaches.
Unfortunately, the Postbank’s fraud detection system hasn’t performed as it should, and the crime was discovered only after everyone returned to [...]
November 16th, 2011 by lhaas
Security researchers have found that sensitive data stored on public cloud services can be easily accessed thieves with a little Google know-how. Researchers are warning companies not to store critical data on the public cloud:
“It is not a good idea to put sensitive data out in the cloud right now — at [...]
September 26th, 2011 by lhaas
Three new bills strengthening data breach security notification regulations bring us a step closer to Federal standards. The bills (1) require businesses to develop data privacy and security plans; (2) set a federal standard for notifying individuals of breaches of sensitive personally identifiable information; and (3) focus the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act statute more narrowly on [...]
September 6th, 2011 by lhaas
Hackers may have obtained more than 200 digital certificates from a Dutch company after breaking into its network, including ones for Mozilla, Yahoo and the Tor project, a security researcher reported today.
The count is considerably higher than DigiNotar has acknowledged. Earlier this week, a company spokesman said that “several dozen” certificates [...]
July 28th, 2011 by lhaas
A hacker that had been found with more than 675,000 stolen credit card numbers that reportedly led to loses totaling more than $36 million, was sentenced on Friday to 120 months in prison. After pleading guilty on April 21, 2011, Rogelio Hackett Jr., 25, of Lithonia, Georgia, was slapped with a maximum prison sentence and ordered [...]
July 25th, 2011 by lhaas
The European Commission is examining whether additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the European Union.
Telecoms operators and Internet service providers hold a huge amount of data about their customers, including names, addresses and bank account details. The current ePrivacy Directive requires them to keep this data secure [...]
July 22nd, 2011 by lhaas
Legislation cracking down on rogue websites could inadvertently help hackers who have struck major corporate and government targets in recent weeks, a group of computer science experts said on Thursday.
“America is getting hacked,” security consultant Dan Kaminsky said at a Center for Democracy and Technology briefing. “On a deep architectural level, we [...]
July 19th, 2011 by lhaas
A targeted attack on a defense contractor in March of this year resulted in the theft of 24,000 files by an unknown attacker, according to Defense Department officials. The attack, which officials say was the work of a foreign government, would represent one of the more serious known attacks on the department and [...]
July 6th, 2011 by lhaas
Sony Pictures, news site Gawker, and social networking site RockYou — following each high-profile breach, hackers released the password file and lit off a round of analysis of users’ password choices. The most common conclusion from researchers: Users select poor passwords.
Yet, in the real world, choosing weak passwords is much less dangerous [...]
June 30th, 2011 by lhaas
Consumers and security experts worried hackers motivated by either criminal or political-activist intentions will breach their security and steal databases of customer-account information needn’t worry, following an incident at Groupon’s Indian subsidiary.
The customer database of Groupon subsidiary SoSasta was published unsecured and unencrypted on the company’s site for long enough to be [...]
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