HSBC Database Breach Highlights Lack Of Accountability For IT Super Users As new details continue to emerge this month about an initially undetected large-scale database pilfering by a former IT worker at HSBC, security experts hope it will highlight one of the most glaring weaknesses in many a financial institution’s database protection scheme: poor accountability for IT super users. The breach was initially uncovered late last year, when former HSBC IT specialist Herve Falciani tried to sell the records of an unknown number of Swiss accounts held by French customers to officials in France charged with hunting down tax evaders

Voluntary Breach Disclosure Rare But Valuable Most organizations won’t go public about an attack unless they have to, but security experts say there are ways to collaborate without being stigmatized. Google’s and Adobe’s disclosure in January that they had been hit by the same wave of targeted attacks were rare voluntary revelations, the likes of which may never be seen again: Most companies won’t disclose an attack unless required to by law or regulations.

SANDUSKY Hackers defaced an unknown number of Web sites, including the Erie County Health Department’s, this past weekend by exploiting security gaps in sites hosted by Network Solutions, an Internet domain provider.

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Erie County Health Department’s Web site hacked (The Sandusky Register)