Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…
Month: May 2012
GE Healthcare Admits Sending NHS Patient Data To US
This report by Steve McCaskill first appeared in April, but I just came across it now: Personal details of 600,000 patients were sent to the US following a mistake made by the NHS’s IT provider, GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare admitted to TechWeekEurope that the error had occurred after it had obtained more patient data than…
WHMCS Attacks Update, DDoS & Forum Defaced, Now Offline
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-1337_0.png On monday the web hosting community was thrown in to anger and worries as thousands of accounts and the complete database and file system of the WHMCS server was leaked online by UGNAZI hackers. Well as if that was not enough for them all week they have been suffering DDoS attacks, which has resulted…
New Town Editorial Uruguay Hacked And Accounts Leaked
A hacker using the handle HackerClaus who has a large amount of pastebin dumps with government leaks, mostly minor but they all build up to show once again lack of security right across the world. One of the most recent attacks is on New Town Editorial Uruguay (https://ciudadnueva.focolar.org.uy/) and the data leak contains 134 accounts with…
Wallcoverings.in Hacked Again, Accounts Leaked, Where is the Security!
Well its not the biggest hack in the world but it is fairly worrying and proves a point that a lot of attacks come down to the website owners or care takers not doing their job properly security wise by using outdated scripts and software. Wallcoverings.in has been hacked for the what we can see the 2nd…
Hillary Clinton Confirms US Hackers against al-Qaida
TAMPA, Fla. — The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that experts based at the State Department swapped al-Qaida ads on Yemeni websites bragging about killing Americans…