A health care worker who sold Medicare beneficiary information to Detroit-area home health agency operators as part of a $24.7 million home health care fraud conspiracy pleaded guilty this week for his role in the scheme, which sought to profit by billing for home healthcare services that were medically unnecessary and not provided. Clarence Cooper,…
Security shortages exacerbating breaches
Mike Millard reports: The sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)² shows that a shortage of information security professionals is having an adverse impact on healthcare and other industries, even as vulnerabilities such as mobile devices and social media are on the rise. The (ISC)² study, conducted in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton and Frost…
Securing Outsourced Consumer Data
No great surprises, but a new survey, Securing Outsourced Consumer Data,commissioned by Experian Data Breach Resolution and conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals that many organizations (46%) do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information. The survey polled nearly 750 individuals in organizations that transfer consumer data to third-party…
Australian web host Uber Global Possible Breach, 30+ sites left defaced
A hacker using the handle Jack Riderr has posted a paste to pastebin that includes a list of sites that have been breached which all come from Australian web hosting provider Uber Global The sites list is made up of mostly Australian sites with some from New Zealand and some other dot com (.com) based sites. The attacks appear to be recent…
UK: Council launches investigation following sensitive data breach
Mark Stead reports that a council has been accused of not securing confidential records being discarded, but the council says that they wee the victim of theft: An investigation has been launched into a security breach concerning the personal and highly confidential data of a group of 49 York residents. About 80 documents containing names,…
American Express vulnerable to attack, 2GB data potential
@TN_cyberarmy has just contacted us and other media sites announcing a exploit on the main American express website which allows access to data. The attack is on americanexpress.com and i can not disclose the vulnerable link but i can provide a simple proof of concept and i can confirm this is in fact exploitable and the said data…