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Vets lose privacy lawsuit against VA after unencrypted data is stolen from hospital

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After multiple thefts and data breaches related to the unencrypted personal information of 7,400 U.S. veterans out of a Veterans Affairs hospital, an appeals court dismissed a lawsuit this month in which patients alleged violations of the Privacy Act and Administrative Procedure Act. The veterans claimed at least seventeen more data breaches have occurred at Wm. Jennings Bryan […]

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Hacked ICANN data still sells for hundreds of dollars years after the breach

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Stolen data has no expiration date. Three years after hackers used a spearphishing attack to successfully gain access to internal data at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the data is still being passed around and sold on black markets for $300, complete with claims that it’s never been leaked before. The 2014 […]

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How a New York Times journalist exposed an IP address and tipped off a major investigation

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Journalists sometimes need to work under a veil of anonymity, and in the 21st century, that often means visiting websites without anyone knowing that a major investigation is underway. It’s not always easy. One newly reexamined court document shows that the subject of a New York Times investigation was tipped off because the news organization’s IP repeatedly showed […]

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Confide, a favorite app of Trump’s White House, is ‘a triumph of marketing over substance’

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Encryption is en vogue in Washington, D.C., but the app of choice for some of the most powerful and “paranoid Republicans” in the capital is profoundly insecure — a problem emblematic of the confounding security issues that have plagued Donald Trump’s young presidency. Republicans in D.C., including members of the Trump administration, are now using Confide, […]

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Target hack fallout finally got executives to pay attention to cybersecurity

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Deep in the guts of corporate America, a sense of shock hit in the days and weeks after hackers hit Target and affected up to 40 million customers in a 2013 breach that made headlines like no other previous hack. In a lot of boardrooms, it wasn’t the breach or even the millions of dollars lost that grabbed the most attention. It […]

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Islamic State supporters hit by Android malware on Telegram

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Islamic State supporters are warning one another of malware targeting the militant group through the chat app Telegram. One member on a popular ISIS forum alerted users to plus_gram.apk, a trojanized RAT (a remote access tool disguised as harmless software) that allows an attacker to spy on and take full control of the target’s Android device. […]

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HackerOne raises $40 million in Series C round

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The bug bounty platform HackerOne announced Wednesday a $40 million Series C financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, bringing total investment in the San Francisco-based company to $74 million. Bug bounty programs connect companies and organizations to hackers who find vulnerabilities and are rewarded for their work. The new HackerOne cash follows up Hack […]

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Hacker steals 83,000 accounts from UPI news agency

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A hacker is selling a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency United Press International. After being contacted by CyberScoop, UPI alerted its entire email subscriber base Tuesday and removed login pages and entire sections of its website. For $100 (about 0.09 in bitcoin), a buyer gets emails, names […]

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