In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company.
The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark.
A former South Carolina lawmaker has added the data security firm Trustwave and the state’s technology department to a lawsuit filed in the wake of a massive data breach at the state’s Department of Revenue.The Associated Press reports attorney John Hawkins in an amendment claims Trustwave “violated and failed to comply with the duties imposed upon them to encrypt data and to expeditiously disclose the breach of security.”
While the eastern United States recovers from this week’s devastasting storm, the nation’s Homeland Security chief used “Superstorm Sandy” to promote the importance of national cybersecurity protection.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a crackdown on mobile application developers and companies that haven’t posted privacy policies, at least where users can easily find them.
The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance today released guidelines for the nascent Security as a Service (SecaaS) specialization within the broader realm of cloud computing. The goal, the group says, is to help companies and consumers gain a better handle on how best to evaluate, build and deploy off-premise Security Information and Event Management systems as they grow in popularity.
State officials are warning South Carolina taxpayers that 3.6 million Social Security numbers and other personal data was exposed in a recent attack on Department of Revenue servers.Anyone who filed a state return since 1998 are asked to call (866) 578-5422 or visit protectmyid.com/scdor. The state is providing a year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection to anyone impacted by the breach.
Two attorneys for a prominent law firm warn that courts are starting to look more favorably on class-action lawsuits brought by data breach victims, who historically have had trouble proving actual damages from the thefts.
A Southern California judge has rejected several key claims in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to Sony’s handling last year of a data breach that left millions of users at risk.In a ruling released by Courthousenews.com, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia ruled users did not have an expectation of “perfect security” when they signed on with the company’s PlayStation Network.
A new report from Trend Micro showed a 483 percent jump in malware — including “aggressive adware” that harvests person data without permission using legitimate ad networks.It’s no surprise that the open nature of the Android platform makes it a magnet for malware, but the type of malware becoming more prevalent illustrates the blurring lines between legitimate apps that gather data for company use and those that violate users’ privacy.
A security breach initially believed contained to about 50 employee records now appears to involve almost 300,000 students, faculty and employees at a Florida college.Officials at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville today confirmed a massive data breach and hundreds of thousands of stolen records that include names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.
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