Section 1 "COG Hackers and self-discipline Convention" established principles of– "COG Hackers and self-discipline Convention," with reference to the 2002 UN General Assembly 57/239 "create global culture of cybersecurity," and the 2004 Resolution No. 58/199, "creating a global culture of cybersecurity and the protection of critical information infrastructure." and social aspects of the industry on…
Month: September 2011
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries claims to of been hacked and mass infected
One of japans biggest companies has made a statement that it was hacked at the start of august 2011. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, who does supplies and engine manufacturing for many different ares and defence contracts as well, with them creating guided missile engines, jet fighter engines and mechanicals, cars and believe it or not they are…
Did AssureCare Risk Management have another hacking incident?
Last month I noted a breach involving AssureCare Risk Management (ARM) that affected employees and their dependents at Reznick Group. ARM had notified Reznick that there had been a series of attempted network intrusions coming from IPs overseas and even domestically. In response to the intrusions, ARM contracted with Kroll to investigate the attacks that…
Are medical-data breaches overreported?
Jay Cline writes: The Eli Lilly employee whose programming glitch exposed the e-mail addresses of almost 700 Prozac users to each other didn’t know he was making history. Since that day in June 2001, hundreds more US healthcare organizations have reported medical-data breaches. As a result of those reports, federal and state health agencies have…
Mind-boggling statistic of the day
[TalkTalk] estimates that more than 700,000 attempts at identity theft were also mounted on Britain’s homes during the first quarter of 2011… Source/more: ISPreview.
UK: Worker sacked in data breach
A Blackpool Coastal Housing worker was sacked after a serious breach of security left confidential tenants data at risk. Fuming Blackpool Coastal Housing (BCH) residents contacted The Gazette after the details of more than 80 tenants – some living in sheltered accommodation – were taken away on a computer memory stick. The female BCH worker…