Hanni Fakhoury of EFF writes: The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in Maryland v. King, a case considering the constitutionality of warrantless DNA collection from arrestees. We’ve long warned about theprivacy problems with the rise of cheap, easy and fast blanket DNA collection, and filed anamicus brief with the Court urging it to hold the government can only obtain this sensitive genetic material…
Not-So-Confidential HIV Testing
If people are not being given full information as to what happens to sensitive information and cannot have it removed, that’s concerning. Read the following report and see if you think Michigan has adequate data and confidentiality protections in place. Todd Heywood writes: Since 2003, the Michigan Department of Community Health has been secretly collecting…
Nassau County DA says multiple ID theft crews hit North Shore-LIJ
More information has been disclosed about data security breaches affecting patients at North Shore University Hospital – Long Island Jewish Hospital. In April 2012, we learned that there had seemingly been two separate incidents, one involving a nurse from Brooklyn. But it seems that there was a lot more data theft and misuse going on…
South Korea Court Opens the Door for Unintentional Data Breach Collective Actions Abroad
Nathan A. Schacht comments on the recent ruling in a lawsuit against SK Communications: … According to reports about this case, the focus was on SK Communications’ violation of its duty to protect the personal data of its operations’ subscribers, including their names, dates of birth, cell numbers and social security numbers. Apparently, after an…
Tunisian Cyber Army Spree of Attacks on Financial Sites
Last month a hacker using the handle @TN_cyberarmy who goes by the team or group name of Tunisian Cyber Army had been on a small spree of attacks on financial based websites. The attacks range from a bank in America to two master card websites being exposed as having XSS exploits in them which are still…
lulzsec.com Sub domain hacked or was it
Updated: Sub domain has been taken over by the FBI, see below. Today i was alerted to a hack by a group of old school hackers from the late 90’s who have left a sub domain of the well known hacker collective lulzsec hacked. The attack appears to be a DNS attack as well as…