Turkish hackers @RedHack_EN have kicked of 2013 with a defacement on the Council of Higher Education for Turkey. They have also announced an defacement on the Bitlis Eren University. The defacement has been announced on twitter. > Happy New Year-1st hack of 2013.Hacked for ODTU => "The Council of Higher Education"=>> ide.yok.gov.tr @youranonnews @anonymouspress — RedHack_EN (@RedHack_EN)…
Month: January 2013
Yemen Customs Portal Hacked, 622 staff and ser Credentials Leaked
Hacker @JokerCracker has been busy recently and despite it being new years eve/day across the world they are still leaking data. The latest leak comes from a Yemem Government Portal for the Customs authorities (https://www.customs.gov.ye). The leak was announced on twitter and posted to pastebin. > #YEMEN #Gov. #Hack by @jokercracker ->goo.gl/Xnpku ,@thehackersblog @cyber_war_news @ozdatacenta…
Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data
The story of how Massachusett Governor William Weld’s de-identified medical records were quickly re-identified in 1997 by then-graduate student Latanya Sweeney is now legendary in discussions of the risks of sharing “anonymized” or “de-identified” health records that might foster research. In an article on Scientific American, Erica Klarreich describes a mathematical technique called “differential privacy” that could give researchers…
The long arm of Connecticut law supports personal jurisdiction over Canadian employee accessing company’s U.S. server
Evan Brown provides a recap of the ruling in in MacDermid, Inc. v. Deiter. The relevant background of the case is that an employee of a U.S. firm who lived and worked in Canada allegedly accessed her firm’s server in Connecticut from her Canadian location and forwarded confidential corporate information from her work e-mail account to…