Yes, some surveys are self-serving, but this one has some data of interest: Cybersecurity firm, HALOCK Security Labs, found that this back-to-school season may be an ideal time for data thieves to steal the personal and financial information of students and parents. HALOCK found that over 50% of the colleges and universities investigated allow for…
Oregon Health & Science University notifies patients of ‘cloud’ health information storage
Oregon Health & Science University is notifying 3,044 patients that their OHSU health information was stored on an Internet-based email and/or document storage service, also known as a “cloud” computing system. Although the Internet-based service provider (Google Drive, Google Mail) is password-protected and has security measures and policies in place to protect information, it is…
VisLink Surveillance Hacked, Accounts leaked and Partners Exposed
This weekend a hacker using the handle @G3NTbl4ck has announced and released data from a Surveillance company named Vislink (https://surveillance.vislink.com). Vislink has been around since 1999 and they specialize in wireless, video and IP technologies together with the supporting management systems. Vislink’s Surveillance solutions support covert and overt video surveillance missions including: criminal investigation, airborne downlink, crisis…
Apple Developer site hack: doubts cast on Turkish hacker’s claims
Charles Arthur reports: A Guardian investigation has cast doubt on claims by a UK-based Turkish researcher that he hacked into Apple’s Developer portal, which has been offline for more than a week. Read more on The Guardian.
Update on Raley’s breach
More on the Raley’s supermarket chain breach reported here on June 9. Peter Strozniak reports that Redwood Credit Union has reissued 18,400 debit cards since June when the Santa Rosa, Calif., credit union was notified that a regional supermarket’s IT system had been hacked by criminals compromising about 200 member accounts. Read more on CU Times.
US Airways notifies employees of breach, but why the delay?
On July 18, US Airways sent some of its employees a letter informing them that, due to an error by Automatic Data Processing (ADP), their W-2 information was downloadable online by fellow employees. US Airways had been made aware of the problem on June 6, but offered no explanation as to why it took them…