Swati Khandelwal writes: …. Since 2008, US-based Progressive Insurance has used the SnapShot device in more than two million vehicles. The little device monitors and tracks users’ driving behavior by collecting vehicle location and speed records, in order to help determine if they qualify for lower rates. However, the security researcher Corey Thuen has revealed that the dongle is insecure and performs…
Category: Breaches
Proposed Indiana law would raise bar for security and privacy requirements
As I had noted over on DataBreaches.net, Indiana’s Attorney General has proposed a data protection and data breach bill that has some interesting provisions. Hunton & Williams provides their own summary of the bill: Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has prepared a new bill that, although styled a “security breach” bill, would impose substantial new…
GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media
James Ball reports: GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the…
All Verizon Customer Emails Were Opened Up To Hackers Thanks To Glaring Bug
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: US telecoms giant Verizon has had a bad couple of years from a privacy point of view, from revelations of unrestrained NSA access to its’ customers call metadata or “permacookies” that could have permanently tracked users web activity. It could do without any other embarrassment, but on Sunday a researcher revealed a glaring vulnerability related…