Oh yeah! I think... Was this a
contract dispute? (I know, read the opinion.)
DSW
Shoe Warehouse wins dispute with Chartis unit over data theft
coverage
August 23, 2012 by admin
Judy Greenwald reports:
A federal
appellate court ruled Thursday that shoe retailer DSW Shoe
Warehouse Inc. was entitled to insurance coverage of more
than $6.8 million in stipulated losses and prejudgment interest from
a Chartis Inc. unit in connection with a 2005
computer breach.
In an incident
widely reported at the time, DSW, a subsidiary of Columbus,
Ohio-based Retail Ventures Inc., reported that data on transaction
information involving 1.4 million credit cards had been stolen.
Read more on BusinessInsurance.
The case is Cincinnati
in Retail Ventures Inc. et. al. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.
of Pittsburgh Pa. According to the background provided in
the Sixth Circuit’s opinion:
In
the wake of the data breach, plaintiffs incurred expenses for
customer communications, public relations, customer claims and
lawsuits, and attorney fees in connection with investigations by
seven state Attorney Generals and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The FTC’s inquiry was resolved administratively with a consent
decree requiring, inter alia, that plaintiffs establish
and maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to
protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of personal
information collected from or about consumers. In
the Matter of DSW, Inc., No. C-4157, 2006 WL 752215 (FTC
Mar. 7, 2006). The largest share of the losses—more than $4
million—arose from the compromised credit card information: namely,
costs associated with charge backs, card reissuance, account
monitoring, and fines imposed by VISA/MasterCard. That amount was
determined by the settlement of plaintiffs’ contractual obligations
with credit card processor, National Processing Company, LLC (a/k/a
BA Merchant Services, LLC).
Although DSW was hacked in 2005 and
settled the FTC action in 2006, it did not notify affected consumers
until August 2008. The delayed notification also occurred for
customers of some other big firms hacked by Albert Gonzalez. In
November 2008, California’s Assembly Judiciary Committee invited
DSW and seven other companies to a hearing on the failure to notify.
DSW
and the others did not attend. It is not clear to me whether the
government had asked the companies not to notify consumers or if the
companies just elected not to.
As part of the 2009 sentencing of
Albert Gonzalez, some of the court documents were made public. The
pre-sentencing report indicated that DSW had reported $6.5 million –
$9.5 million in losses as a result of the breach.
“Your entire life, over time.”
(Not the most convincing video I've ever watched.)
The
Program
August 23, 2012 by Dissent
Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles
William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who
helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting
Americans’ personal data. You can read her op-doc on the New
York Times. Here’s the video:
Very cool. How do you say “anonymous”
in Korean?
S.
Korea court rejects law banning false IDs on Internet
August 23, 2012 by Dissent
AFP reports:
South Korea’s
Constitutional Court on Thursday effectively killed off a law which
bans Internet users from using false IDs, ruling it a
breach of freedom of expression.
Authorities in
2007 started enforcing the law aimed at curbing the country’s
notorious cyber-bullying by preventing Internet users from hiding
behind false IDs when they write postings on websites.
Eight
judges in a unanimous decision ruled the law is unconstitutional.
“The legal
phrases related to enforcing the use of real names restrict the
freedom of expression guaranteed by the constitution and obstruct the
formation of free opinions which form the basis of democracy,” it
said.
Read more on MSN.
Not only is this a good ruling for
freedom of expression, but the government discovered how bad a
real-name strategy was in the wake of some very high profile hacks
where millions of consumers had their real names and registration
numbers (equivalent to our Social Security numbers) stolen.
It's not mind reading, yet. But if
this takes 5 minutes to cross the boarder, will the next act of
Security Theater take 10?
Border
Patrol kiosk detects liars trying to enter U.S
August 23, 2012 by Dissent
The U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) is using border crossing stations in
Arizona to test new technology to detect liars as they attempt to
enter the country; travelers are subjected to a
5-minute interview with the kiosk, while microphones
monitor vocal pitch frequency and quality, an infrared camera
monitors eye movement and pupil dilation, and a high definition
camera monitors facial expression.
The Automated
Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time (AVATAR) kiosk
interviews travelers while searching for signs of deception.
Read more on Homeland
Security Newswire. Background on the research and additional
details can be found on www.arizona.edu.
(Related) If this is how they
implemented the Israeli program, they screwed it up. How much more
complex can they make boarding a plane?
Steve
Gunn: Just say no when the TSA asks you to ‘chat’
August 24, 2012 by Dissent
Steve Gunn describes what happened to
him at Detroit Metropolitan Airport when a TSA agent started asking
him questions as part of a “chat-down.”
At first she
simply seemed chatty and friendly. She looked at my airline boarding
pass and noted that I was coming from Denver. Then she mentioned
that I was headed from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
“Talk to my
travel agent,” I grumbled.
At that point she
asked me what my business would be in Grand Rapids.
“I’m headed
home,” I replied.
Then she wanted to
know where home was. That’s when the mental alarms went off and I
realized I was being interrogated by Big Brother in drag.
I asked her why
the federal government needed to know where I was going and what I
would be doing. She explained that the questions
were part of a new security “pilot program.”
I then told her I
am an American citizen, traveling within my own country, and I wasn’t
breaking any laws. That’s all the federal government needed to
know, and I wasn’t going to share any more.
Read about it on MLive.
These chat-downs or attempts at behavioral detection have become
just more of the intrusive and ineffective “security theater”
law-abiding citizens are expected to endure.
Some of us will not and do not endure
them willingly. With one exception, I have not flown at all since
November 2010.
And yes, as I wrote at that time, I’ve foregone some trips I would
have otherwise taken. The airlines lost my business as did the
conferences or vacation spots I might have flown to. I had hoped
that this country would come to its senses about air travel, but it
seems to have gotten worse instead of better. Shame
on Congress for not reining in these needless and insulting
intrusions on Americans’ privacy. [Second! Bob]
Yes, along with everyone else.
"A Cambridge academic is
arguing for regulations that allow software users to sue
developers when sloppy coding leaves holes for malware infection.
European officials have considered introducing such a law but no
binding regulations have been passed. Not everyone agrees that it's
a good idea — Microsoft has previously argued against such a move
by analogy, claiming a burglary victim wouldn't expect to be able to
sue the manufacturer of the door or a window in their home."
The new English? So would “Call me
Ishmael.” become “Call me the guy who narrates Moby Dick.?”
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