George Franco reports: A Vietnam veteran from Canton is upset after receiving his medical records, and those of ten other people from the V.A. Medical Center in DeKalb County. Ken Newton told FOX 5 he retrieved his medical files for his attorney in a possible lawsuit concerning Agent Orange. Ken Newton pulled out his medical…
Month: February 2016
ZA: Espionage feared in laptop theft
Mayibongwe Maqhina reports: The DA suspects espionage might be at play in the theft of laptops belonging to members. KwaZulu-Natal DA MPL Francois Rodgers and another staff member lost their laptops and other equipment in separate theft incidents in Kokstad within a month. Rodgers said the home of a party staff member was broken into on…
Illinois couple blames McBride, Lock for data breach
Molly English-Bowers reports: An Illinois couple is suing a Missouri business, alleging a data breach exposed their Social Security information, among other sensitive documentation. Jennifer Bohnenstiehl and Timothy Bohnenstiehl, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed the lawsuit Jan. 25 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against McBride, Lock & Associates of Missouri….
Twitter 0day claim exposes users emails
update: Turns out this isn’t an 0day but more a glitch in twitters own service and security. – Today a twitter user going by the name of @XTM_lulz who claims to be 13… and has a very long history of getting his account suspended on twitter started announcing that they had got a twitter 0day. lol…
NY: Troy CSD officials: Security breach may have threatened student information (UPDATED)
WRGB reports: School officials are working to determine the source of a security breach they say had the potential to put student information at risk. Administrators say they were alerted to a hack on a district server, and have reached out to police and a cyber-security firm to investigate the problem. District officials say they…
IRS Statement on E-filing PIN Attack
Feb. 9 – The IRS recently identified and halted an automated attack upon its Electronic Filing PIN application on IRS.gov. Using personal data stolen elsewhere outside the IRS, identity thieves used malware in an attempt to generate E-file PINs for stolen social security numbers. An E-file pin is used in some instances to electronically file…