Dancho Danchev reports: Closely monitoring the post-take down activities of the Waledac botnet, security researchers took a peek inside the botnet’s cache of stolen accounting data, and found half a million stolen email passwords, next to hundreds of thousands of stolen FTP passwords. More info: “More specifically, they have 123,920 login credentials to FTP servers at…
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NY document: ID theft ring targets Apple stores
Jennifer Peltz of Associated Press reports: Dozens of people have been charged with forming a prolific identity theft ring that used thousands of stolen credit card numbers to shop at Apple stores around the country, according to a court document and a law enforcement official. The group obtained stolen account numbers, forged credit cards and…
NC: Book Store Security Breach Causing Financial Aid Problems For Some ECU Students
Fraudulent charges linked to a breach at the University Book Exchange near East Carolina University continue to show up and the number of irate comments start to pile up. WITN follows up on a breach they reported last week. Almost a month after a security breach was recognized and fixed at a local bookstore near…
Ca: Patients' right to privacy breached
The Sun Country Health Region (SCHR) has sent letters of apology to 66 patients whose right to privacy was breached. The SCHR discovered last June that one of its employees improperly reviewed the electronic prescription records of the 66 patients between March 2009 and January 2010. An extensive investigation has been conducted to determine the…
Sensitive and confidential patient health records not adequately protected: Survey
There’s a new Ponemon study out today, “Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking.” I haven’t read it yet, but you can read the press release from Informatica on The Medical News for a quick overview of the survey.
UK: Hailsham hacker ordered to pay back £124,000
Ben Parsons reports: A computer hacker from Hailsham who set up frauds to feed a gambling habit has been ordered to pay more than £100,000. Alistair Peckover – described by police as an “obsessive loner” – used websites including Google and BT to steal people’s bank details. […] Peckover, who previously lived in Broadfield, Crawley,…