Charlie Cooper reports: The junior doctor leadership of the British Medical Association discussed “drawing out” their contract dispute with the Government for more than a year, a huge leak of private messages sent between the union’s committee members reveals. Despite publicly stating throughout their dispute that a solution could be reached if the Government was…
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UK man charged over attack on Mumsnet
There’s been an arrest in the attacks on parenting site Mumsnet. Charlie Osborne reports: A British man has been charged in connection to a cyberattack against Mumsnet which knocked the popular parenting website offline. Mumsnet experienced a data breach earlier this year when a hacker broke into the website’s servers and exploited administration privileges to redirect…
Victorian teen stokes international hacktivist fears after hacking CLP’s website
… but not to worry, it was just a skid. Alyssa Betts reports: A young Victorian man who hacked the Northern Territory’s Country Liberals website and stole the credit card details of 76 party members inadvertently stoked fears of attacks by international hacktivists and jihadists. Aaron Warren Camm pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court…
Was chatting about marijuana on TheTreesNetwork hazardous to your privacy?
In today’s installment of misconfigured databases, include more than 10 million chat messages from more than 44,000 users on TheTreesNetwork. Chris Vickery, security researcher at Kromtech, writes: I have information on two different breaches to share today. Coincidentally they both involve sites that show videos to their user base. The first has to do with TheTreesNetwork.com,…
Players’ personal information exposed in U.S. Soccer’s lawsuit
This was reported in February, but I missed it. I know, I know, I’ve let you all down. Cope with it. Better late than never, though, because so much personal information gets exposed in court filings and not enough has been done to address the problem. While the information exposed in this case is not the…
Open wide and say, “Aaaargh.” ADA sends malware to dental offices?
Oh, wonderful. The American Dental Association (ADA) says it may have inadvertently mailed malware-laced USB thumb drives to thousands of dental offices nationwide. The problem first came to light in a post on the DSL Reports Security Forum. DSLR member “Mike” from Pittsburgh got curious about the integrity of a USB drive that the ADA mailed to members to share updated…