Grant Gross reports: Congress may need to create stiffer penalties for criminal computer hacking to deter the growing number of attacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, some lawmakers said Wednesday. Congress may revisit the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the oft-amended law first passed in 1984, in an effort to counter widespread cyberattacks…
Fake fingers fool punch-in clock in Brazil
WLS-TV/DT reports: The Brazilian newspaper O Globo is reporting that a doctor in Sao Paulo was arrested after being caught in the act of using fake fingers made of silicone and imprinted with real finger prints to defraud a hospital’s biometric punch-in clock. The news report says the doctor, Thauane Nunes Ferreira, was detained and…
Google launches site to help webmasters of hacked sites
Juan Carlos Perez reports: Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos designed to help webmasters identify, diagnose and recover from hacks. Read more on Computerworld.
Massachusetts EMR firm reports breach
Here’s another case, not yet reported in the media, involving insider wrongdoing and electronic medical records: On Tuesday, Lawrence Melrose Medical Electronic Record, Inc. in Melrose, Massachusetts notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’ office that an employee of a medical practice improperly accessed the EMRs and patient registration information of patients at six medical practices…
New Disease Registry Gives Patients Some Privacy
Courtney Humphries reports on something that sounds really exciting: As advances in genomics, molecular analysis, and data processing have propelled disease research forward, scientists and drug developers still face a formidable challenge: recruiting patients for their studies. Genetic Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for people with rare genetic disorders, is launching a new site called Reg4All that…
Fox News Taiwan Still Hacked and Defaced 5 Months later
A hacker who is known by the handle Over-X has hacked and left an official fox news website defaced. The fox news website is the official Taiwan domain (https://www.foxnews.com.tw/) and the defacement is in the form of a sub folder index so the main website is not effected but at time of publishing the sub folder…