Helen Whitehouse reports: Confidential documents detailing the backgrounds of hundreds of people have gone missing following an office upgrade blunder. Bungling Contractors threw out a locked filing cabinet containing up to 500 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates for people who had applied to become registered managers and providers. The error, which happened during the…
Month: July 2016
UNC Charlotte employees bank accounts hacked
WSOC reports: UNC Charlotte employees’ bank accounts were targeted by a hacker. The school was alerted to the breach when it found a problem with an employee’s direct deposit information. Channel 9 reporter Ken Lemon talked to some university employees who didn’t want to go on camera. Their information wasn’t compromised, but they said they…
Gatineau officers arrested in ‘criminal’ investigation for misuse of database
Megan Gillis reports: Two Gatineau police officers were arrested Friday morning and immediately suspended with pay after a criminal investigation into unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. The officers, one with three years of service and the other four years of service, have not been charged. Read more on Ottawa Citizen. Thanks to…
HHS seeks threat information sharing system for health sector
Amanda Ziadeh reports: The Department of Health and Human Services is looking to strengthen the privacy and security of health care information by sharing cyber threat data with partner agencies and stakeholders. HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response released funding opportunities for an…
Clinton campaign says data program accessed in cyber-attack on Democrats
Sam Thielman and Lauren Gambino report: A data program used by the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, was “accessed” as a part of hack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that intelligence officials believe was carried out by Russia’s intelligence services, Clinton’s campaign said on Friday. […] Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said…
Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information
Cory Doctorow reports: Consumer Reports Labs tested Glow, a very popular menstrual cycle/fertility-tracking app, and found that the app’s designers had made a number of fundamental errors in the security and privacy design of the app, which would make it easy for stalkers or griefers to take over the app, change users’ passwords, spy on…