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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 2, 2023

Dutch Data Protection Authorities Looking Into Alleged Tesla Data Breach Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Tesla (TSLA.O) had allegedly failed to adequately protect data belonging to customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. The Dutch DPA is looking into the situation. Among the data is Elon’s Social plus […]

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FTC Helps App Developers Understand Data Sharing

When I say “help”, I mean that only in the kindest of terms, such as placing the company under a 20 year monitoring program, among other assistance. In this case, a company called Easy Healthcare has a free ovulation tracking app. As most of you well know, if it is free, you are the product. […]

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Cybersecurity Advisory – China Using “Living off the Land” Attacks to Avoid Detection

The FBI, NSA, CISA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK (AKA the US and the Five-Eyes Countries) issued a joint advisory on Chinese cyber tactics in light of the Guam critical infrastructure attack. Living off the Land means an attack that uses existing, already installed, vendor signed software to launch an attack and maintain […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 26, 2023

Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]

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How Much Does Failing to Install a Patch Cost? $550,000

The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]

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Twitter and Saudis Face Racketeering (RICO) Charges as Lawyers Get Creative

RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]

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