Andrew Seymour reports: When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager,…
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7.85 million IDs, passwords found on seized proxy servers in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting a significant data theft case affecting as many as 5.06 million people who used online shopping and other web sites in Japan. The Metropolitan Police Department said that the IDs and passwords were found on computer servers it seized in relation to alleged unauthorized access via proxy servers by a Chinese…
Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud
Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…
PCI Council Revises PCI Data Security Standards
WAKEFIELD, Mass., 15 April 2015 — Today, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 3.1 and supporting guidance. The revision includes minor updates and clarifications, and addresses vulnerabilities within the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol that can put payment data at risk. Available now on the…
There’s TOO MANY data-leaking healthcare firms, growls Symantec
Darren Pauli reports: Security software company Symantec is being drenched in calls from breached health organisations that have lost devices or suffered an information security snafu. Some 80 per cent of the calls its incident response team has received since December are from healthcare firms, topping the charts for the number of breach incidents for 2014 for…
Lawyer: Malware located on drive provided by police department in discovery
Bill Bowden reports: A lawyer representing three Fort Smith police officers in a whistleblower case said Monday that someone tried to hack into his computer by giving him an external hard drive contaminated with malicious software. Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock has been representing three current and former Fort…