Federal prosecutors had charged a former employee of the Miami VA medical center (the Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center) under the federal hacking statute as part of charging him for altering a patient’s records to cover up deficiencies in care. A former Department of Veterans Affairs employee pled guilty today to destroying, altering and falsifying records and committing computer…
Month: December 2015
IL police: Identity theft crew may have targeted 1,600 names
Ronnie Wachter reports: Lincolnshire police say that a three-month investigation has led to charges against three men in a computer fraud ring that could have involved 1,600 victims. After a series of identity theft cases in their communities, police from Lincolnshire and Naperville worked with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in a long investigation. Read more on Chicago…
Hacked WordPress to reset 30,000 passwords
Alasdair Gilchrist reports: Popular blogging website WordPress has forced its hosts WP Engine to announce that it has fallen victim to a security breach that has forced a reset of 30,000 customer passwords. WordPress is a very popular blogging platform and as a result has often been the target of attacks and compromises from threat actors and…
77,000 Steam accounts are hacked and raided every month
Graham Cluley writes: Valve, the developers of the Steam online gaming platform, says that its members are facing a serious problem. Accounts have always been hijacked on the gaming site, by hackers who have stolen passwords, but now the problem is said to have risen twenty-fold, with some 77,000 Steam accounts hacked every month. Read…
High-Risk Security Vulnerabilities Identified During Reviews of Information System General Controls at Three California Managed-Care Organizations Raise Concerns About the Integrity of Systems Used To Process Medicaid Claims
From the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services: We summarized the high-risk security vulnerabilities that we identified as audit findings in our previous reviews of information system general controls at three California Medi Cal managed-care organizations (MCOs). We identified 74 high-risk security vulnerabilities in the information system…
UK: NetNames confirms easily.co.uk whacked by cyber crims
Paul Kunert reports: The UK’s number two website hosting business, Easily.co.uk, has confirmed to customers it has fallen prey to cyber crims. The NetNames-owned company, which hosts 100,000 sites including 65,000 in Britain, told punters yesterday IT systems were attacked by an “unknown third party”. “A forensic investigation by independent experts has revealed that unauthorised…