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…
35+ Israeli & 115 Other Sites hacked by @AnonGhost_
A hacker using the handle Anon Ghost aka @AnonGhost_ has been making headlines recently with many sites defaced along the way. Some of the more recent sites to be defaced are some Israeli based sites that have been attacked in the name of "free Palestine". On the 14th of January @AnonGhost_uploaded a list of 36 sites to pastebin that…
Ca: Info on 25,000 patients lost in Montfort Hospital security lapse
Chris Cobb reports: Montfort Hospital officials were scrambling on Friday to reassure thousands of patients that an unsecured USB data key lost by a hospital employee did not contain intimate details of their health issues. Information on the USB key, downloaded from a Montfort computer in contravention of hospital rules, contained information on more than…
Web Hunt for DNA Sequences Leaves Privacy Compromised
Gina Kolata reports: The genetic data posted online seemed perfectly anonymous — strings of billions of DNA letters from more than 1,000 people. But all it took was some clever sleuthing on the Web for a genetics researcher to identify five people he randomly selected from the study group. Not only that, he found their entire families,…
Preview Of RED, The Movie About Turkish Hacker Collective Red Hackers
In 2011 the well known Turkish hacker group Red Hackers came back into light after attacking Adnan oktar, the turkish police and many other high profile targets. Today they have announced from twitter @RedHack_EN a video that is due out on 15th February 2013 named RED that is focused on the hacker collective. The movie is being made by a Turkish film company named…
SIIA, Software & Information Industry Association Hacked
A hacker using the handle SLYHACKER has sent in list sites that belong to the Software & Information Industry Association that have been breached and left defaced. > The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education…