A nurse has been struck off after she admitted snooping on the confidential medical records of her own friends, family and a colleague. Jennifer Susan Ramsay, 37, admitted she was no longer fit to practice after the data protection breach was uncovered by suspicious colleagues. The nurse, who worked at the MacMillan Day Care unit…
Month: February 2012
UK: Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 after e-mail, sent insecurely, disseminated to unintended recipients
Cheshire East Council has been ordered to pay a monetary penalty of £80,000 for failing to take appropriate measures to ensure the security and appropriateness of disclosure when emailing personal information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The serious breach of the Data Protection Act occurred in May 2011 when a council employee was…
Anonymous gets hacked, Anonyops.com hacked and defaced?
content/images/gallery/random3/freezepage-anonyops-hacked.png Well it would appear that a hacker using the handle Exotz has done one one anonyops.com an anonymous news related websites/blog that has strong affilation with the anonymous movement. The defacing which happened not to long ago features what appears to be a new post with the following message. and image. Such an unfortunate accident,…
Thai Government hacked and defaced by Saadi n Hax.r00t
content/images/gallery/random3/f.png The thai government has come under attack from two well known hackers Saadi n Hax.r00t who often leave many sites defaced. The target https://osm.opdc.go.th/main.php was still defaced at time of publish and features some funny stuff like they have set them selfs as "Hax.r00t is now president of .th Saadi is now Prime Minister ". https://arab-zone.net/mirror/94981/osm.opdc.go.th/main.php
300,000+ Accounts and details leaked from Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing
The Middle east cyber war has taken another turn with a new data leak that is said to contain over 300,000 details of members, contact messages, and more. The leak comes from the hacker claiming to be 0xOmar who has the pastebin account username 0XO. The leaked data has come from 2 different sites which have been hacked…
Cybersecurity Bill in U.S. Senate Seeks Industry Rules to Thwart Hackers (update 1)
Chris Stromm reports: Companies running computer networks essential to U.S. economic and national security would be required to better defend their systems from spies, hackers and terrorists under bipartisan Senate legislation unveiled today. The bill calls for identifying vital information networks and setting security requirements for companies and government agencies. Lawmakers and regulators say rules…