Jacques Gallant and Marco Chown Oved report: At least three GTA [Greater Toronto Area – Dissent] hospitals do not proactively audit their patient records to detect privacy breaches, the Star has learned. A survey of 24 hospitals and health-care centres found that more than half say they check their information systems for inappropriate access at least…
Month: December 2014
Lizard Squad targets Tor network compromising user anonymity
Duncan Riley reports: Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has moved on from attacking Xbox Live and the Playstation Network and has now set its sites on the Tor network. The group announced the zero-day attack on Twitter, where is said it would target unnoticed weaknesses. Read more on Silicon Angle.
Tallahassee Police Release Reporter’s Personal Info In Massive Records Request
Ashley Lopez reports: The Tallahassee Police Department recently released hundreds of police reports involving Florida State University athletes—as well as the personal information of the reporter who requested the records. On Christmas Eve, according to Poynter, the non-profit journalism education center, TPD publicly released ESPN reporter Paula Lavigne’s original request – which included her cell phone…
#Anonymous dumps 13,000 passwords (updated)
Updates: See this post and this article for debunking that these are new leaks. Julie Bort reports: The hacker group known as Anonymous released a file on Friday containing about 13,000 passwords, it claims. […] But these accounts come from a variety of online sources, the Anonymous claims, some of them really popular. DailyDot’s Aaron Sankin sifted…
PA: Old fashioned data breach: Independence Blue Cross paper records tossed in trash
Harold Brubaker reports: Independence Blue Cross on Friday disclosed a data breach affecting 12,500 of its more than 2.5 million members. Unlike most high-profile cases of personal data loss, such as the one at Target stores last year affecting 70 million people, the IBC case did not involve computers. The incident happened in October, when…
ISC.org website hacked: Scan your PC for malware if you stopped by
Chris Williams reports: The website for the Internet Systems Consortium, which develops the BIND DNS and ISC DHCP tools, has been hacked. Anyone who recently browsed ISC.org is urged to check their PC for malware as miscreants booby-trapped the site to infect visitors. The website has been replaced by a placeholder page warning netizens of…