David Shamah reports: Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online, during the organization’s OpIsrael hacking attack last week. A hacker called Buddhax, a member of the Israeli Elite Force hacking group, posted the information on the IEF’s Facebook page Wednesday, two days after anti-Israel hackers…
Month: April 2014
Heartbleed hacks hit Mumsnet, too
Leo Kelion reports that like the Canada Revenue Agency, Mumsnet has also fallen victim to exploitation of Heartbleed: A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug. Mumsnet – which says it has 1.5 million registered members – said…
UK: Sensitive social services records lost after being left on family’s doorstep
An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled that a council in Berkshire breached the Data Protection Act after sensitive social services records relating to the care of a young child were lost. The information had been requested by a family member who made a subject access request for their information to Wokingham…
TrueCrypt audit: Probe’s nearly all the way in … no backdoor hit yet
John Leyden reports: The first phase of crowd-funded audit of TrueCrypt has turned up several vulnerabilities, but nothing particularly amiss and certainly nothing that looks like a backdoor. iSEC Partners, which was contracted to carry out the audit by the Open Crypto Audit Project (OCAP), found 11 vulnerabilities in the full disk and file encryption…
UK: Cosmetic surgery files hacked: Details of 500,000 people stolen and used in blackmail attempt
Tania Steere reports: One of Britain’s best-known and biggest providers of private cosmetic surgery has been targeted by computer hackers, it was revealed last night. Confidential personal details of nearly 500,000 people who made an enquiry about surgery via Harley Medical Group’s website were stolen in an apparent bid to blackmail the company. Patients interested…
Curious Cop Downloaded Hundreds of Private Prescription Records Because He Could
Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU writes: Today, the ACLU and ACLU of Utah filed an amicus brief in support of a Utah paramedic whose Fourth Amendment rights were violated when police swept up his confidential prescription records in a dragnet search. Law enforcement’s disregard for basic legal protections in the case is shocking. The United Fire…