Steve Mistler reports: A purported Russian hacker is claiming responsibility for an attack that disabled Maine.gov, the central portal to the websites for Maine state offices. The hacker, dubbed Vikingdom2015, boasted of the attack via Twitter. In addition to Maine state websites, the group also claimed responsibility for disabling New Hampshire state websites as well….
Category: U.S.
Hilton Honors Flaw Exposed All Accounts
Brian Krebs reports: Hospitality giant Hilton Hotels & Resorts recently started offering Hilton HHonors Awards members 1,000 free awards points to those who agreed to change their passwords for the online service prior to April 1, 2015, when the company said the change would become mandatory. Ironically, that same campaign led to the discovery of a simple yet powerful flaw…
Anonymous attacks NYPD union website
Rebecca Harshbarger reports: A cyberattack shut down a website for the NYPD captains union, targeting it with malware, union officials said. Hackers from the group Anonymous, which supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and recently started an online war with ISIS, corrupted the website of the Captain Endowment Association on Friday. […] Richter wrote that…
ISIS hackers post names and addresses of 100 service members, call for jihad against them
Jason Molinet reports: Islamic State hackers have posted the personal details of 100 U.S. service members they claim took part in the bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan – and called on homegrown radicals to strike back. The group calling itself Islamic State Hacking Division allegedly gathered the dossier from…
Speech Therapist Guilty of Health Care Fraud
Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud in relation to a health care fraud scheme that billed Tricare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas more than $3.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rabon…
Despite Wave Of Data Breaches, Official Says Patient Privacy Isn’t Dead
Charles Ornstein of Pro Publica talked with Jocelyn Samuels, director of OCR. You can read his interview on ProPublica.org. Pretty much everything they touched on has been discussed numerous times on PHIprivacy.net, so you may not find anything new in the interview if you were a regular reader of PHIprivacy.net, but I suppose it’s still reassuring…