When the CEO of Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional Medical Center disclosed patient records in trying to defend themselves against a media report, I immediately noted that without the patient’s consent, they could not do that. Despite what was so obvious to most of us, they defended their disclosure, claiming that the patient had waived…
Australian based wordpress sites hacked and defaced
A hacker using the handle ulow has been very active in Australian servers over the past few days and in the past leaving a heap of sites defaced. The recent attack appears to be a mass defacing where all sites are hosted on a single server and use a common system, WordPress 3.4.2 which is an older version…
#OpEgypt Still in operation taking down government sites
A few months back Anonymous hacktivist and hackers from around the world united and kicked of Operation Egypt. Since then there has been many attacks and months on they are still going on. Over the past 24hrs hacktivist have been attacking two Egyptian government websites that has result in them being offline more then online….
Australian Firefighters Ingest Data-Transmitting Pills When They Go To Work
Shaunacy Ferro reports that Australia is monitoring firefighter’s biodata on the job: A new data-delivering pill could help firefighters monitor their reactions to heat stress, a new trial in Australia shows. Heat stress can lead to various problems for firefighters working in hot environments, including unconsciousness and cardiac arrest, and the standard method of measuring…
1.7GB Documents leaked from Special State Protection Service of Azerbaijan
The state of Azerbaijan has been hit by hackers who have taken sights to the Special State Protection Service. Anonymous hacktivist have managed to obtain and release over 1.7GB of documents that are in PDF, txt, doc formats and the data was announced from the Par-noia.net twitter account @Par_AnoIA not to long ago. > NEW RELEASE:…
Docs 'n guns
I’ve previously noted a Florida law that prohibited doctors from inquiring whether there was a gun in a patient’s home. In my opinion, the Firearm Owners ‘ Privacy Act was, and is, a terrible law, and interferes with health care professionals’ attempts to routinely screen for environmental factors that may, at some point, become a safety risk…