An NHS trust has done it again – losing 800 confidential patient records on an unencrypted memory stick. The Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust patient records were lost in September 2010. Shockingly, the details were on an unencrypted memory stick and worse, the 800 affected patients were never told. Leaked details include full name, date…
Month: October 2011
An attempt to protect privacy devolves into a scene
Maintaining patient privacy is always an issue in hospitals. In emergency rooms, it may become even more challenging. Last week, my mother was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. To protect her privacy, I won’t say why other than she definitely needed emergency medical care and was in danger of not one, but two,…
Casey Anthony Jail Video: Florida Judge Releases Controversial 2008 Footage
Following up on a previous blog entry: a Florida judge has rejected Casey Anthony’s defense attorney’s argument that a jailhouse video of Anthony should remain sealed as she had been sedated. The argument was that once she had been sedated, any footage should be subject to medical privacy protections. Kyle Hightower of Associated Press reports:…
Extensive report into SK Communications hack
An Australia Security training and research firm has released a very detailed document that examines the recent large scale attack on SK telecommunications. This attack resulted in a large amount of data being phished with lots of personal information, credit cards banking etc. Command Five PTY has done a very extensive look and write up about this attack…
wrestlegame.co.uk Hacked, database and accounts dumped by @ThEhAcKeR12
@ThEhAcKeR12 has just dumped a huge amount of accounts and a database from wrestlegame.co.uk, All accounts that have been dumped are encrypted and database is a 99.k .xlsx file dumped on media fire. All together there is only about 1500+ accounts, so not to many but still shows the lack of security websites have. Accounts: https://pastebin.com/xc7jx54v db: https://www.mediafire.com/?lddbibt3h75nceh just…
US Government contractor hacked and accounts leaked by @ThEhAcKeR12
Well once again a US Government contractor cant secure themselves and have ended up being victim of cyber crime. With the last couple of months or even over the last year or so we have seen a huge rise in public attacks on the worlds governments and America has been at the top of the list…