Asian Correspondent reports: Another data leak involving foreigners in Thailand has apparently been uncovered barely a week after sensitive personal information of foreigners living in the country’s southern provinces was revealed to have been to be hidden in plain sight. This time the details of the foreign travelers, including their most recent vaccine shots, real names, nationalities, passport…
Month: March 2016
“Weev” hijacked 29,000 printers to spew anti-Semitic flyers across US colleges
Mary-Ann Russon provides additional details on Weev’s hack of printers to spew an anti-semitic message: Auernheimer used a single line of Bash script code to scan the internet for unprotected printers that were connected to the web using the open port 9100, and then created a PostScript file containing a flyer advertising a white supremacist news website…
Chinese Browsers Leave Users Vulnerable, Report Says
Dow Jones Business reports: China’s top three Web browsers collected and transmitted data in insecure ways, making hundreds of millions of users’ personal information vulnerable to unauthorized access, according to a human-rights research group. In a report published Tuesday, the University of Toronto’sCitizen Lab said Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s QQ Browser had been transmitting users’ data…
GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information
WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
IRS Needs to Further Improve Controls over Financial and Taxpayer Data: GAO
The highlights of a new GAO report on the IRS: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made progress in implementing information security controls; however, weaknesses in the controls limited their effectiveness in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of financial and sensitive taxpayer data. During fiscal year 2015, IRS continued to devote attention to securing its…
Ca: Alberta Health Services implements new privacy training following massive fall 2015 breach
Jeremy Simes reports: Following a breach of privacy investigation at a southern Calgary hospital last fall, Alberta Health Services (AHS) has withdrawn or reduced disciplinary action against dozens of hospital employees, though they’re getting personalized training so it doesn’t happen again. The breach involved 48 South Health Campus employees in connection to a Calgary police…