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Month: July 2015

New guidelines after data breaches at University Hospital Galway

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Dissent

Dara Bradley reports: New guidelines for supervising students conducting research at University Hospital Galway (UHG) were put in place following the discovery of a serious breach of data protection of female patients at the hospital. The guidelines were put in place in response to one of a number of data protection breaches, including release of…

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Anonymous focused on Canada after RCMP shooting of protester

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Dissent

While massive hacks in the U.S., stupid remarks by our presidential candidates, and Greece and China’s economies grab the headlines, there are those trying to sound alarms in Canada about hacks/attacks by members of Anonymous.  So far, though, their warnings seem to be falling on either incredibly calm or incredibly clueless ears. Attacks by Anonymous in Canada escalated…

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Opelousas hacker held wihout bond, allegedly controlled thousands of computers

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Dissent

Tina Macias reports: The Opelousas man, Rory Guidry, arrested last week for his alleged part in a nationwide cybercrime ring will remain behind bars without bond, pending a mental health evaluation, a Lafayette federal judge ruled today. Guidry, 28, is charged with computer fraud and accused of attempting to sell access to a “botnet,” a…

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Saskatchewan Cancer Agency patient privacy breach

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Dissent

Canadian Press reports: The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency says it has disciplined two employees for viewing the private health information of 48 people they were not providing care for. The information they looked at included patient names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, health services numbers as well as information about diagnostic tests, medical exams, clinical…

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Dumb MongoDB admins spew 600 TERABYTES of unauthenticated data

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: Shodan hacker John Matherly says system administrators have exposed some 595.2 terabytes of data by using poorly-configured or un-patched versions of the popular MongoDB database. eBay, Foursquare, and The New York Times are some of the prominent users of the open source MongoDB which is the most popular NoSQL database. Matherly says the near 30,000 databases…

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More escort-related services hacked

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Dissent

Of course, the big news today was the hack of AshleyMadison.com and the potential embarrassment it may cause to those using its services to have affairs. Not to be deterred from his mission, however, @ElSurveillance continued attacking escort-related sites, posting the same message on their home page that he’s posted in the past: Dear Admin and the…

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