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Lowe’s recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their personal information may have been disclosed when a third-party vendor mistakenly backed up Lowe’s employee data to an unsecured server. The vendor, SafetyFirst, manages an online database called E-DriverFile, which stores compliance information related to current and former drivers of Lowe’s… Read more
According to the results of GFI Software‘s third annual IT Admin Stress Survey, conducted by Opinion Matters, fully 79 percent of IT staff are actively considering leaving their jobs due to job-related stress. That’s a significant increase from 2013, when just 57 percent of respondents said they were actively considering leaving. The survey of 200… Read more
Andrew Ware, 27, of Lauderhill, Fla., was recently sentenced to 70 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) and access device fraud scheme. Ware previously pled guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy… Read more
Recent corporate security breaches have taught us something important: The average computer user is spectacularly bad at choosing good passwords. The most popular passwords turn out to be simple, easy-to-remember ones, like “password,” “123456,” “monkey” and “iloveyou,” all of which provide little security. If you can remember your password, then it is probably not secure.… Read more
Insuring against cyber threats is not exactly a new concept, but most companies — two out of every three — don’t have cyber insurance policies. Despite recent headlines about major security breaches, growth in the cyber insurance market may actually be slowing. According to New York-based brokerage firm Marsh LLC, the number of cyber insurance… Read more
Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange for Bitcoin and dozens of other cryptocurrencies, recently announced that about 12.3 percent of its Bitcoin holdings were stolen by a hacker (h/t E Hacking News). “The hacker found a vulnerability in the code that takes withdrawals. … The hacker discovered that if you place several withdrawals all in practically the… Read more
Computerworld Hong Kong reports that a pharmacy staff member at Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) lost a USB drive containing 92 patients’ personal data on February 18, 2014, but didn’t report the loss to management until three days later, on the 21st (h/t PHIprivacy.net). The drive was unencrypted, and didn’t have password protection in… Read more
Bank of the West recently began notifying an undisclosed number of former job applicants that the information they had provided in an online job application may have been accessed by hackers. “On December 19, 2013 we discovered that a retired Internet application that provided job listings and accepted applications for positions at the Bank had… Read more
The Mail on Sunday reports that an anonymous whistleblower says up to 27,000 confidential customer files have been stolen from Barclays Bank and sold to rogue traders (h/t Infosecurity). “This is the worst [leak] I’ve come across by far,” the former commodity broker told the Mail. “But this illegal trade is going on all the… Read more
The Nielsen Company recently began notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information may have been exposed when an employee mistakenly shared a file containing the data by e-mail. “We recently discovered that on December 1, 2013, a Nielsen Audio Human Resources employee accidentally e-mailed a file listing Social Security numbers and names… Read more