Topics discussed

• The big story - "Heartbleed"
  • http://www.csoonline.com/article/2142626/security-leadership/how-you-need-to-respond-to-heartbleed-and-how-you-can-explain-it-to-others.html
  • http://www.csoonline.com/article/2146141/disaster-recovery/healthcare-gov-urges-password-resets-due-to-heartbleed.html
  • http://xkcd.com/1354/
  • http://rt.com/news/heartbleed-arrest-canada-security-016/
• The "hacker*" known as "Weev" is free ...on a technicality, and why this is bad, very very bad, for our industry
  • http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/11/weev-is-free/
• "Ramshackle Glam" - how one blogger had to go to extraordinary lengths to get her site back, and what you can learn from it
  • http://mashable.com/2014/04/02/ramshackle-glam-hacking/
• The FTP's lawsuit of Wyndham Hotels was allowed to proceed by a federal judge - and why this is a very dangerous precedent
  • http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/ftc-lawsuit-over-hotel-chain-data-breach-can-proceed/2014-04-14
• Data breach roundup
  • Michaels [yes, again] - http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/leading-us-art-store-admits-2-6-mln-credit-cards-at-risk-of-hacking-114041800569_1.html
  • South Carolina data breach is getting costly (for tax payers) - http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/396a4be862cd485e9248cab7879a3a71/SC--Hacked-Tax-Returns
  • Hard drive maker LaCie was a victim ...for over a year - http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5672/20140416/lacie-latest-victim-data-theft-ironies-hard-drive-manufacturer-hacked.htm
  • [UK] Cosmetic surgery group hacked, blackmail ensues (yikes!) - 

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