Jason Lewis reports: More than 200 police officers and support staff in Britain’s biggest force have been caught accessing the highly sensitive Police National Computer for their own ends. Half of the offences uncovered, including some accused of passing information to criminals, took place in the last three years – suggesting the abuse of the…
Month: August 2011
FTC Approves Final Orders Settling Charges that Credit Report Resellers Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information
From the FTC: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final orders settling charges against three credit report resellers, SettlementOne Credit Corporation; ACRAnet, Inc.; and Fajilan and Associates, Inc., also doing business as Statewide Credit Services. The FTC alleged the companies did not take reasonable information security steps to protect consumers’…
New data spill shows risk of online health records – as if we needed yet another reminder?
Jordan Robertson of Associated Press reports: Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker’s crushed fingers, a maintenance worker’s broken…
350+ sites hacked by mr moro, Moroccan hacker
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4,100+ Sites hacked and defaced by Sophia Hacker Group @sophiacrews
A group fo hackers who call them selfs a headache for system administrators are going on a huge spree of defacing sites, with a list of over 4,100 sites and counting every day. The group going by the name of Sophia hacker group has a interesting twitter message that when translated to english reads “Separated we…
Rock of Ages 2012 movie scripts, cast listings and screen shots leaked!!!!
aww warner bros hit the fan as we predicted. the email: Hi, CloudFlare is just passing along a DMCA complaint against your site. Please review the complaint below. Regards, Damon ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Bentkover, Michael <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM Subject: EXPEDITED REQUEST Unauthorized Use of Warner Bros.’ Property…