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Pierluigi Paganini reports: The security researcher Saumil Shah from Net Square security has presented at Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam his Stegosploit project which allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an image to trigger a drive-by download. The Stegosploit digital steganography project could open new scary scenarios for Internet users that could be infected by viewing a picture on…

Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Now that the Conservative Party has secured a majority government in the UK, it’s pushing ahead with plans to expand the surveillance state with the Communications Data Bill, also known as Snooper’s Charter, which would require communications providers from BT to Facebook to maintain records of customers’ internet activity, text messages and voice…

This vulnerability was found in a Twenty Fifteen plugin called JetPak. You all know what to do by now.

PHIprivacy.net had a select and very dedicated readership, but it was time to consolidate my work and put all breach reports back together on one site. As of today, there is a new “Health Data” category on DataBreaches.net. That category will continue to be used for breaches involving the healthcare sector, but now it will…

In 2008, I spun off PHIprivacy.net from PogoWasRight.org to start reporting on all the breaches and medical privacy issues of concern to me. The following year, I spun off DataBreaches.net from PogoWasRight.org to cover all non-healthcare sector breaches. It’s time to re-merge. Three blogs are just too much to keep running. But don’t worry: you’ll…

This was from last month, but I just caught up with it. Blanton Smith reported: Plunket have launched an investigation after medical records were found in a house at the Taranaki Building Removers’ yard. For those not familiar with them, “Plunket” is the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, a provider of support services for children 5 years…