The Department of Justice appears to be doing its best to kill off the cloud – at least in the U.S. Microsoft has been fighting, for months, a DoJ search warrant to provide emails and address book information for a customer who’s data is stored in an Irish data center. Microsoft has been fighting this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE 12-17-14 : Sony has cancelled the New York premiere of the movie the Interview according to USAToday and is leaving it up to theatre owners to decide if they want to show the film. The cost of this move as well as if they have insurance to cover it is unknown, although it will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) just agreed to pay a $150,000 fine after a 2012 breach of approximately 2,500 patients protected Health Information (PHI) due to malware on their healthcare software system according to Healthcare IT News. Apparently ACMHS had adopted the sample Security Rule policies in 2005 but didn’t bother to follow […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Minnesota judge has ruled that Target was negligent in the 2013 hack on their point of sale system according to infosecurity-magazine. Now while this is far from the last word on this issue and it will likely be appealed after the trials, it is important. For a judge to say that Target WAS NEGLIGENT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian Krebs, the security blogger that has broken a lot of breach stories was one of the journalists that received a letter from David Boies firm. Today he writes about it and other than the comment about hell freezing over first, he suggests, for the most part, Sony does not have much of a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg has been busy lately with cyber reporting. On December 10th, 2014, they reported that the attack on the Turkish BTC pipeline in 2008 was likely a cyber attack. The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory caused a 1 megawatt generator to blow up to prove a point a couple of years before this, so […]
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