Mark Metherell reports: Federal government auditors have overruled Medicare, calling on the agency to improve security of patient details held by pharmacists. Patient information on the 200 million prescriptions pharmacists dispense each year are largely electronically held, which the Auditor-General, Ian McPhee, says ”continues to be an area of growing threats”. In an audit report…
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In: 2 men held for stealing lakhs via net banking
A Selvaraj reports: The CB-CID’s cyber crime wing on Saturday arrested two Mumbai men for withdrawing Rs 26.55 lakh and Rs 75,510 respectively through fraudulent means from two separate accounts of two Tamil Nadu-based persons using net banking. The arrested, S Vinayak Shivaji Khandare (20) and I Ibrahim Ansari (25), have been brought to Chennai…
District food servers charged in theft of patrons’ credit card numbers
Josh White reports: Three servers at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue in the District allegedly stole credit card numbers from patrons as part of a scheme that racked up more than $117,000 in fraudulent charges between 2008 and last year, authorities say. Investigators with the U.S. Secret Service allege the servers were working…
VA: Middle school students’ info stolen
Monica Norton reports: A USB drive containing the personal information of students at a Woodbridge middle school was stolen during a burglary last week, according to a notice sent to parents on Friday. The drive, used by Lake Ridge Middle School administrators to contact parents in the event of an emergency, contained students names, identification…
Hospital Staff May Have Shared Too Much on Facebook
Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports: Facebook is used to stay connected, write to friends and even show pictures but now the website seems to be at the center of a North County hospital investigation. Dozens of Tri City Medical Center employees may have shared patient’s information in social networking sites without the consent of patients. Officials did…
Over 4,500 logins uploaded to open source content site
Dan Raywood reports: Over 4,500 logins have been published on a 77 page document on a shared content website. Chris Boyd, malware researcher at Sunbelt Software, claimed that as Scribd allows users to share written content online, converting PowerPoint, PDFs and Word documents into web documents that can be viewed through sites such as Facebook…