Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
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TX: Emergence Health Network notifies 11,100 mental health patients of possible PHI breach
First, their press release: (El Paso, Texas October 16, 2015) Emergence Health Network (EHN) is in the process of contacting individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. An EHN computer server was compromised in August through an unauthorized internet connection. The affected computer server was disabled to minimize a compromise. It is not…
Anonymous Targets Thai Govt, Leaks Data from State-owned Telecom Firm
Waqas writes: Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. […] Anonymous claims that the group managed to steal confidential details about the…
In wake of OPM breach, DoD proposes hack victim database
Roy Urrico reports: Weeks after the Federal government began sending snail mail notifications to the 21.5 million victims of the Office of Personnel Management breach, the Department of Defense proposed creating a hack victims database. The Pentagon’s proposed database, the Defense Manpower Data Center, would store the information in a “holding file,” according to an…
Russia ‘tried to hack MH17 inquiry system’
Phys.org reports: Russian spies likely tried to hack into the Dutch Safety Board’s computer systems to access a sensitive final report into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, experts said Friday. The cyberattacks were revealed by security experts Trend Micro which blamed a shadowy group dubbed Operation Pawn Storm, “an active economic and…
Failure to update software left Naperville computers vulnerable: report
A costly reminder of the need to patch and update promptly. Geoff Ziezulewicz reports: Hackers were able to break into Naperville’s computer network in an unprecedented 2012 cyber attack because of a vulnerability in the city’s web software that had not been patched, even though an alert and update had been released roughly a month…