Lots of information I'm not posting.
At first read, it seems that the data from LabMD was given to Homelan
Security and stolen from them, but maybe not... Interesting, if
confusing, case.
Adam Greenberg reports on two
cases where businesses have challenged the FTC’s authority in
data security cases. Although Wyndham’s challenge has been
discussed in detail on DataBreaches.net (see these
posts), I haven’t really described the LabMD case until now.
In the LabMD case, the Atlanta
Business Chronicle reported last year:
Another case my Computer Security and
Forensics students can learn from. Could you call up records
documenting the status of software on a card reader you sold in 2006?
Cotton Patch Cafe‘s
lawsuit against Micros goes to trial in U.S.
District Court in Baltimore on Monday. I had posted some of the
background on this case back in July 2011, here.
The restaurant sued Micros after it was hacked and customers’
credit card information was stolen. Now Gary Haber reports:
The lawsuit
alleges that Micros Systems failed to meet credit
card industry standards because its system
did not have adequate security to prevent hackers from breaking in
and stealing customers’ credit card data. The lawsuit alleges
unknown third-parties accessed the system in 2006 and 2007 and
stole customers’ credit card numbers.
“The system was
not compliant at the time they sold it to us,” Larry Marshall,
Cotton Patch Cafe’s president, said in an interview.
Louise Casamento,
a Micros Systems spokeswoman, called the allegations in the lawsuit
“frivolous.”
Cotton Patch’s lawsuit alleged
negligence, gross negligence, negligent misrepresentation, fraud by
nondisclosure, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices
Act. I’ve uploaded a copy of their second
amended complaint and Micros’s response
to it.
Micros moved for summary judgement, and
the court granted their motion in part, striking the negligence and
gross negligence counts. The three remaining counts will be
litigated. Judge Marvin J. Garbis’s Memorandum
and Order provides background on the case and allegations and
refers to forensic findings. Since most of the court filings are
under seal, this document may be helpful if you are trying to get up
to speed on this case and what some of the forensic investigations
revealed – or didn’t reveal.
For my weekly amusement...
The
Chronicle reports that not a single student at
Colorado State University-Global Campus has signed
up for MOOC-for-credit. (Students there can purportedly pay $89 for
a proctored exam, “compared with the $1,050 that Colorado State
charges for a comparable three-credit course.”) The deluge of
students wanting to acquire cheaper credits – is “not happening
as quickly as we had hoped,” says Chari Leader Kelley, vice
president of LearningCounts.
… The
New York Times reports that schools that are considering allowing
employees to carry concealed weapons are facing
higher insurance rates, with some insurance providers threatening to
drop coverage altogether. “More than 30 state legislatures
introduced bills that permit staff members to carry guns in public or
private schools this year, according to the National Conference of
State Legislatures.” [Not sure I see the logic
here... Bob]
… Versal launched
its online learning platform this week, one it
describes as “an open publishing platform for anyone to create
interactive online courses - no coding required.” It’s also
launched a foundation to support educators and non-profits with
grants ($1,000 to $25,000) to create “forever-free,”
openly-licensed courses. “Versal’s killer app is something it
calls the ‘gadget’ tool,” reports
ReadWrite, which wins for the headline-of-the-week: “Online
Learning Is Broken, And Versal Wants To Fix It.” (I thought online
learning was going to fix broken brick-and-mortar education, but it’s
hard to keep everything straight.)
