From the report: On December 9, 2013, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC) and the B.C. Ministry of Health (MoH) convened a meeting of 38 representatives from the health research community and its stakeholders in British Columbia. The attendees were invited to come together to discuss and seek solutions…
NHS admits new medical records database could pose privacy risk
Laura Donnelly writes: Patient confidentiality could be undermined by the new medical records database, the NHS’s own risk analysis has warned. The controversial database could be vulnerable to hackers or could be used to identify patients “maliciously”, the document, seen by The Telegraph, states. It says the scheme could damage public confidence in the NHS…
Second member of #Anonymous sentenced in Angel Soft DDoS prosecution
Paul Srubas reports: A second man implicated in an Internet attack on Angel Soft bathroom tissue’s website three years ago was sentenced recently in federal court in Green Bay. Jacob Wilkens, 24, of Postville, Iowa, must spend two years on probation and pay $110,933 in restitution, Magistrate Judge James Sickel ordered last week. Christopher Sudlik,…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…
Kickstarter hacked – change your passwords
Yancey Strickler, CEO of Kickstarter writes: On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system. No credit card data of any kind…
UK: Parking firm pulls app after dev claims: I can SEE credit card privates
Jasper Hamill reports: An automated parking firm has halted public access to its payment app after a blogger identified a serious security flaw which he claimed allowed him to see other users’ credit card information. According to Matt Cheetham, an iOS developer based in Bournemouth, the Phone and Pay app was so leaky that he could easily…