The Veterans Administration agreed on Tuesday to paying $20 million to veterans who were potentially exposed to identity theft arising out of a data security breach in 2006 of their personal identifiable information. This currently is the largest data breach in U.S. government history, and occurred when a VA employee wanted to take their laptop […]
Attention Boeing Employee Credit Union and Washington State Employees Credit Union Members Class Action Investigation: Heartland Payment Systems data breach – The Law Office of Seaton M. Daly III, P.L.L.C., is investigating a potential class action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems (“HPS”), Washington State Employees Credit Union (WSECU), Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU), […]
January 20, 2009, will forever be known as the day the U.S. inaugurated its first African-American President, Barack Obama. However, buried deep in the headlines of the day, it was announced that the largest data security breach in U.S. history occured by Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. The amount of loss and damages, it is […]
The sky is falling! For thousands of years, people have been told to prepare for apocalyptic events, and yet time after time, history has shown that we disregard the "warnings" until the "event" actually takes place. Maybe in some sadistic or perverse way, we derive some sort of pleasure from failing to heed the signals, […]
A sigh of relief…Many businesses in the U.S., and abroad, are extremely happy to say goodbye to the year 2008, and welcome in 2009. The rollercoaster ride of economic turmoil and uncertainty, that will forever define 2008, has now been replaced with eternal optimism and progress, as we begin the new year. The prospects for the […]
John Markoff, of The New York Times, reported today that a government and technology industry panel on cyber-security is recommending that the federal government end its reliance on passwords and enforce "strong authentication." The Report is a strong indictment of government and private industry’s efforts to secure cyber-space by detailing a laundry list of […]
The prospect of expanding a business into strategically aligned international markets can create a multitude of challenges and unexpected problems that need to be managed before market entry is attempted. One of these "challenges" an international business will confront is, how to deal with the various privacy laws established by host foreign countries. Privacy protection […]
Microsoft released its Security Intelligence Report on Monday, November 3, 2008, a fifth such report of its kind by the software giant. The study said that a majority of information loss was as a result of human error, such as lost laptops or stolen IT equipment (47.5%). Social engineering attacks, in which the text […]
Jordan Robertson, of The Associated Press, reported today that a former engineer of Intel, Corp., has been charged in Massachusetts for illegally downloading more than a dozen confidential documents, worth about $1 billion, from Intel’s computer system in CA, during a 4-day stretch in June. All of this was accomplished while the engineer, Biswamohan […]
Late today, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Flores-Figueroa v. U.S., some time next year. The main issue the Justices will opine is "whether the defendant must know that the counterfeit identification belongs to some one else?" Federal prosecutors have increasingly brought more serious […]