The 2015 US State of Cybercrime survey has been released and is worth a read. The Survey, co-sponsored by PwC, CSO, the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the United States...more
8/7/2015
/ C-Suite Executives ,
Carnegie Mellon ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Secret Service
In response to advanced payment technology and consumers’ preference to non-traditional payment systems of writing checks, paying cash, or swiping a credit or debit card, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...more
The Office of the Inspector General for the State Department recently confirmed in a Memo that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent emails with classified information in them through her private email account...more
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved funding to provide the 22 million individuals affected by the OPM data breaches with 10 years of credit monitoring services and $5 million in liability protection for damages,...more
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity center released a draft guide last week for health IT professionals to use to bolster security for the use of mobile devices in the health care industry....more
7/31/2015
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Encryption ,
Healthcare ,
Information Technology ,
Mobile Device Management ,
Mobile Devices ,
NIST ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular
In 2010, LifeLock Inc. entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 35 state attorneys general for $12 million for allegations involving false promises and lack of security. The settlement was...more
tyntec, a telecom-web convergence company, recently released its BYOD Survey 2015: Employees’ Choice for Mobility white paper. The paper is the culmination of an online survey of 1,320 respondents from May 16 – May 22, 2015....more
On July 25, 2015, Healthfirst Inc. notified approximately 5,300 of its members that their information may have been compromised during a criminal fraud scheme perpetrated against it. The fraudulent scheme was discovered by...more
We previously reported that UCLA suffered a data breach affecting 4.5 million patients. Days following the announcement of the breach, plaintiffs filed a proposed class action lawsuit against UCLA, alleging that UCLA should...more
7/24/2015
/ Breach of Contract ,
Class Action ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Fraud ,
Healthcare ,
Invasion of Privacy ,
Negligence ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
UCLA ,
UCLA Medical Center
Hackers calling themselves “The Impact Team” announced on July 15th that it has compromised the extramarital affair site AshleyMadison.com, and companion sites Cougar Life and Established Men, including absconding with up to...more
On July 16, 2015, the Department of Education issued a request through notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for emergency clearance so that Federal Student Aid (FSA) can initiate a formal security assessment...more
Twelve automakers that make up the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) have agreed to form an information sharing and analysis center (Auto ISAC) that will facilitate the sharing of cyber security data to stay abreast...more
7/23/2015
/ Automotive Industry ,
BMW ,
Chrysler ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Fiat ,
Ford Motor ,
General Motors ,
Hackers ,
Information Sharing ,
Jaguar ,
Mazda ,
Mercedes-Benz ,
Porsche ,
Toyota ,
Volkswagen ,
Volvo
In an unusual turn for recent data breach class action cases, the Seventh Circuit this week found that a likely threat of identity theft is sufficient for a proposed class to have standing to sue Nieman Marcus for a...more
7/23/2015
/ Amnesty International ,
Article III ,
Clapper v. Amnesty International ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Standing
We have been watching the growth of drones in the sky and the FAA and states’ attempts to regulate them. Now we will start watching the growth of underwater drones. The USS North Dakota submarine sailed into Groton,...more
Maryland Attorney General Maryland Attorney General announced yesterday that Noridian Healthcare Solutions LLC will pay the State of Maryland $20 million up front and $5 million over the next 5 years for a total of $45...more
Adding to the long list of cyber hacking victims, the UCLA Health System announced on Friday (July 17, 2015) that it confirmed on May 5, 2015 that a cyber-attacker had accessed parts of UCLA Health’s network back to September...more
7/21/2015
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
FBI ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Identity Theft ,
Medicare ,
Mental Health ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Substance Abuse ,
UCLA
Last week, (July 15, 2015), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the coordinated law enforcement efforts of 20 countries, including the U.S. effectively dismantled the computer hacking forum Darkode with criminal...more
7/20/2015
/ Criminal Prosecution ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Passwords
Lawyers using social media: beware!
The Louisiana Supreme Court has disbarred a lawyer for launching a “viral campaign to influence and intimidate” judges who presided over her friend’s child custody dispute.
In...more
A Nebraska federal judge called a United States Senator a “wacko” and unfit for a bid for the White House in his blog post…which was criticized by a GWU law professor blogger who said the blog post violated the federal...more
Blue Shield of California is sending out notification letters to 843 of its members advising them that as a result of a computer code update it made to its website, when members logged into their own accounts, they were able...more
The Department of Justice has announced that 25 year old Hieu Minh Ngo has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. His sentence was lighter than expected because he has cooperated with authorities to catch more identity...more
7/20/2015
/ Criminal Prosecution ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Data Breach ,
Data Brokers ,
Data Collection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Fraud ,
Hackers ,
IRS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Social Security Numbers ,
Tax Returns
The FCC has announced that it will receive a settlement payment of $3.5 million from two telecommunications companies—TerraCom Inc. and YourTel America for allegations around the companies’ failure to safeguard customers’...more
7/17/2015
/ Breach Notification Rule ,
Broadband ,
Credit Monitoring ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
FCC ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Lifeline Program ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Settlement ,
Telecommunications ,
Wireless Technology ,
YourTel America
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, NJ has announced that Marius Ventila, a Romanian native, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and to pay $7.5 million in restitution for his part in a credit card skimming scam that used...more
The OPM announced this week that it is temporarily shutting down its background security clearance system, e-QIP, as vulnerabilities were found during a review of systems. Presently, according to OPM, the vulnerabilities did...more
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center recently issued an alert “Criminals Continue to Defraud and Extort Funds from Victims Using Cryptowall Ransomware Schemes” that indicates that the Center continues to receive...more
7/13/2015
/ Bitcoin ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Employees ,
FBI ,
Internet ,
Malware ,
Ransomware ,
Spam ,
Virtual Currency ,
Websites