France's government reaches for more expansive surveillance powers, but doesn't wait for legislation to shutter five websites for "condoning terrorism."
Premera, a large American health insurance company, discloses that it was the victim last year of a data breach exposing some 11 million people's personally identifiable information. The attack began in May 2014 and was discovered in January of this year. Premera has posted advice to affected customers. Observers note similarities between this incident and the Anthem case (attackers spoofed a company website in both cases.
LifeWise, another US health insurance provider, also discloses a breach. It's offering identity-theft protection to a quarter million customers, most of them in Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Both Premera and LifeWise announce they've retained FireEye's Mandiant unit to investigate and assist with remediation. To round up today's healthcare and insurance sector breaches, Oregon-based Advantage Dental (not an insurer, but a care provider) warns 151,000 patients that a hacker has accessed their HIPAA-protected data.
The Andromeda botnet returns, and expands.
Dark web black market "Evolution" suddenly vanishes, and buyers of the contraband traded there are surprised and aggrieved to learn that a criminal market's proprietors would abscond with their funds: about $12 million in Bitcoin.
University researchers report a new way of de-anonymizing Tor users.
Synack says it's found a way around Apple's Gatekeeper.
Fresh concerns surface about airliner avionics' possible vulnerability to hacking.
D-Link patches firmware in wireless range extenders and WiFi cameras.
Raytheon appears closer to buying Websense for a reported $1 billion.