Anonymous vs Bank of america aka boFa has been a on going battle the past few years and now anonymous has struck back with a huge release of logs and evidence that ties a lot of the research and Intel gathering that bank of America has been doing on them. The data, depending where you are located was announced…
Month: February 2013
Data Losses Overall Are Up, But Bank Data Breaches Are Fewer: Report
Penny Crosman reports: A report released by KPMG on Tuesday finds that globally, there’s been a 40% increase in the number of publicly disclosed data loss incidents in the past two years. However, financial services firms have seen an 80% decrease in number of incidents in the past five years. Read more on American Banker….
Illegal Marketer of Medicare Information Admits Role in Detroit-area Home Health Care Fraud Scheme
A health care worker who sold Medicare beneficiary information to Detroit-area home health agency operators as part of a $24.7 million home health care fraud conspiracy pleaded guilty this week for his role in the scheme, which sought to profit by billing for home healthcare services that were medically unnecessary and not provided. Clarence Cooper,…
Security shortages exacerbating breaches
Mike Millard reports: The sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)² shows that a shortage of information security professionals is having an adverse impact on healthcare and other industries, even as vulnerabilities such as mobile devices and social media are on the rise. The (ISC)² study, conducted in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and Frost…
Securing Outsourced Consumer Data
No great surprises, but a new survey, Securing Outsourced Consumer Data,commissioned by Experian Data Breach Resolution and conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals that many organizations (46%) do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information. The survey polled nearly 750 individuals in organizations that transfer consumer data to third-party…
Australian web host Uber Global Possible Breach, 30+ sites left defaced
A hacker using the handle Jack Riderr has posted a paste to pastebin that includes a list of sites that have been breached which all come from Australian web hosting provider Uber Global The sites list is made up of mostly Australian sites with some from New Zealand and some other dot com (.com) based sites. The attacks appear to be recent…