Jill Disis reports: Information on 55,000 patients and employees at an Indianapolis-based cancer center practice is missing. A spokesman for Cancer Care Group, 6100 W. 96th St., confirmed today that someone stole a computer bag belonging to a Cancer Care Group employee on July 19. The bag contained information such as names, birth dates, social…
More services should fall within scope of EU security breach rules, ENISA says
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) said that LinkedIn and Research In Motion (RIM) were examples of businesses that had not been subject to EU laws on security breaches when they both experienced incidents within the past year. Currently EU laws require that firms that provide “public communications networks or electronic communications services”…
10 Greater Cleveland residents charged with bank fraud, identity theft
Donna J. Miller reports: Ten people from Greater Cleveland are accused of stealing a total of $207,000 from six banks in a scheme that involved an assistant bank manager and a salesman who supplied local businesses with cash registers and credit card machines. They were charged Friday with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft based…
GA: Wilkinson County Schools Investigate Online Security Breach, Dismiss School Early After Potential Threats
Jasmine Williams of WMGT reports that an online security breach was the beginning of a sequence of events that led Wilkinson County officials in Georgia to dismiss schools early on Friday: According to authorities, a Wilkinson County student accessed the user names and passwords to PowerTeacher. PowerTeacher is a classroom management system used to store…
Further sites attacked for #OpFreeAssange
#OpFreeAssange has been picking up over the past few days with more attacks happening every day. some of the most recent attacks come from @WikiboatBR with a bunch of defacement’s and a hacker using the handle @0x3a0x3a who has dumped a load of breached FTP systems. All the attacks have happened some time over the…
Oops: Ulster Bank apologizes after losing some customers’ records
BreakingNews.ie reports that Ulster Bank has apologized to customers after an employee inadvertently dropped a folder containing customer info outside one of its offices but didn’t notice it. The folder was eventually returned to them.