What would you say if your employer told you it needed your height, weight, body fat percent and other personal information for health insurance purposes? That’s what CVS is beginning to do. The company is telling workers who use its health insurance to have a wellness review done or pay up. CVS says the information…
NZ: Privacy Commissioner amends health code to protect newborn blood samples
Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has strengthened the Health Information Privacy Code 1994 to improve legal protections around newborn babies’ bloodspot samples. These samples are collected as part of a national newborn metabolic screening programme, also called the heelprick or Guthrie Test. The samples are held permanently unless parents request their return. The amendment will restrict…
SPVM Officier Information Data Leak
Notes: It is unknown exactly how this data has been acquired Intro: Last month on the 13th of February it would appear that some anonymous hacktivist had announced a leak of data from the SPVM. More recently this leak has come back into the light under the hash tag #SPVMLeaks on twitter over the past few days. What is SPVM?…
Police Crime Prediction Software, PredPol Source Code Leaked By Anonymous
Update: Comment from PredPol has been added to the bottom. An anonymous hacktivist has today announced a leak of source code that comes from PredPol.com, which is a policing prediction software used by many divisions of California police. The announcement has come from #Ag3ntBlack aka @OpGJResisters via twitter. > oHai #Anonymous #AntiSec #OpBigBrother please enjoy filebox.com/ctfnbztm6hcl | Full install…
Medical Industry Under Attack By Chinese Hackers
If you’re not scared already, this might do it. Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: Multiple gangs of Chinese cyberespionage hackers are now targeting the healthcare and medical/life sciences industries. Most every industry is fair game for cyberespionage these days — so it’s no surprise that the healthcare and medical industry would come up on the list…
Sparks details attack and data theft
From their press release: The company behind Sparks, the app that is designed to help you connect with and meet new people nearby with whom you have shared interests, and which was first presented at SXSW in 2012, has given details of an attempted Denial of Service attack allegedly undertaken by an employee of their…