I’m still playing catch-up with everything I missed thanks to NatGrid’s profound incompetence in restoring power after a tropical storm knocked us offline. Here’s a press release I had missed: The Digital Forensics Association announces the release of their second annual data breach report. “The Leaking Vault 2011- Six Years of Data Breaches” analyzes 3,765…
Month: September 2011
NC: Court upholds dismissal of OMH lawsuit
Lindell Kay reports that a privacy of invasion lawsuit against a hospital was correctly dismissed because autopsy records are public information: The N.C. Appeals Court this week upheld a decision that Onslow Memorial Hospital employees did not violate the privacy rights of a murdered woman’s family by allegedly passing around her autopsy X-rays in 2009….
ACLU Challenges Florida's Mandatory Drug Tests for Temporary Assistance Recipients
From the ACLU of Florida: The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) today announced it filed suit in federal court seeking to halt implementation of Florida’s new law mandating drug testing of applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program without suspicion of drug use. The suit, filed Tuesday, September 6, 2011…
TEAM T!g3R hack and leak data from 6 Sri Lanka Government sites
The Sri Lanka government has been under attack a lot these past few weeks, with many division of the government being hacked and defaced and lots of the websites login data being leaked as well. The most recent attacks leaves another six sites hacked and having its admin login leaked. https://www.rpd.gov.lk https://pastebin.com/kWn41ZHk https://www.rgd.gov.lk/ https://pastebin.com/im522VJ2 https://www.publictrustee.gov.lk…
3 Indonesia Government Sites hacked and data dumped by Cyb3rSec Crew
Cyb3rSec Crew has been busy the past few days dumping 3 databases from different sites. The websites which are all Indonesia government websites. The data that has been leaked is admin accounts and basic database layouts. https://agroindustri.menlh.go.id/ https://pastebin.com/YqaSx1Uh https://landspatial.bappenas.go.id/ https://pastebin.com/fyv1A0in https://ktm.depnakertrans.go.id/ https://pastebin.com/wHymUfPx This continues the proof that the worlds governments need to fix shit asap and stop…
HHS submits its annual report to Congress on breaches
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has submitted its mandated report to Congress on breach reports it has received. The report covers incidents reported between September 23, 2009 (the date the breach notification requirements became effective), and December 31, 2010. Here are some of the highlights of the report:…