Wang Wei reports: GoPro, the popular wearable high-definition camera manufacturer, has vulnerability (sic) in its official website that exposes usernames and passwords of thousand of its customers’ wireless network. Read more on The Hacker News. The vulnerability was reported by Ilya Chernyakov, who reports that US CERT contacted GoPro about the vulnerability he discovered.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Nurse Accused Of Illegally Accessing Patient Records
Esme Murphy reports: A nurse with a history of narcotics theft illegally accessed a state database that contains prescription drug records for 1 million Minnesotans, all under the supervision of government entities that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. A WCCO-TV investigation found that, despite the nurse’s background, he was given access to…
Ca: Privacy Breach as Employees Receive Other People’s T4 Forms
Every year, I expect to see a certain number of breach reports involving tax/wage statements. Here’s another one: VOCM News has learned that there has been a major privacy breach in Central Newfoundland. Employees with Municipal Affairs in Gander got their T4 slips in the mail yesterday. VOCM News has been told that four people…
Costly shift to new credit cards won’t fix security issues
Nandita Bose reports: New technology about to be deployed by credit card companies will require U.S. consumers to carry a new kind of card and retailers across the nation to upgrade payment terminals. But despite a price tag of $8.65 billion, the shift will address only a narrow range of security issues. Credit card companies…
U. of Chicago notifies employees and former students of hack
The University of Chicago breach reported on this site in January and February has now been reported to at least one state attorney general. The breach involved a database belonging to the Biological Sciences Division. In a copy of their notification letter, submitted to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, Dr. Everett Vokes, Chairman of the Department of…
The Daily Mail did what U.S. media didn’t do: FOI the U.S. Education Department for Insider Breaches
From the good-for-them dept.: The Daily Mail in the U.K. filed a Freedom of Information request with the U.S. Education Department and obtained over 100 pages of responsive documents to their request for records relating to employee misuse of department computers. They have made the entire file available on their site. Note that this is…