Linda A. Moore reports: A former Rhodes College student pleaded guilty Tuesday to hacking into the college’s computer system to change his grades and keep his scholarship. Michael Geddati, 20, was a freshman pre-med major when between December 2017 and May 2018, he accessed various systems without authorization to raise his grades. Geddati’s actions were detected after a faculty…
Month: February 2019
Reserve Bank of India warns of mobile data theft by ‘AnyDesk’ app
ENS Economic Bureau reports: Amid rising instances of fraud using the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) platform, the Reserve Bank of India has cautioned all banks and payment system operators about a new modus operandi allegedly used by scammers to target customer phones. In an alert dated February 14, the cyber security and IT examination cell…
Piles of Southside Medical Center patients’ confidential medical records found outside the Atlanta clinic
Michael Seiden reports: Piles of partially burned medical records were discovered across the street from a metro Atlanta medical center, Channel 2 Action News has learned. Southside Medical Clinic said they have no idea how the records got there. A viewer alerted Channel 2’s Michael Seiden to the issue in a parking lot across the street from…
Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data
Seth Borenstein of AP reports: An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday. The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138…
NZ: Ministry for Children forced to apologize after social worker tries to access private medical records
TVNZ reports: The Ministry for Children, Oranga Tamariki, has been forced to apologise to a foster family after one of its social workers tried to access their private medical records. The incident occurred after a foster child tried to attack them with a knife. However, the family says the attempted privacy breach has been even…
You should have told us: Company says email was hacked, sues its insurance broker for not advising it to get computer fraud insurance
Noddy A. Fernandez reports: A gift distribution company is suing a global insurance broker, citing alleged broker malpractice. Hampton-Haddon Marketing Corp. (HHMC) filed a complaint on Jan. 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Willis of Tennessee Inc. and Willis Towers Watson PLC, alleging the defendants breached their duty…