Remember the news coverage of how RailCorp was auctioning off USB drives left on trains without properly wiping them first? There’s a follow-up to the story on Infosecurity-Magazine this week: The state-owned passenger rail service RailCorp did not comply with New South Wales’ (NSW) privacy law when it “cleansed” data from unclaimed USB keys that…
CT radiologist fined, reprimanded after patient data breach
HealthImaging reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Gerald Micalizzi, MD, a Connecticut radiologist formerly employed by Advanced Mobile Imaging Radiology, has been fined $20,000 after downloading patients’ personal information, according to a Valley Independent Sentinel report. From Feb. 4, 2010, to March 5, 2010, Micalizzi accessed the records of 957 patients at…
Wiki Boat Adds Another Target, Glen Core To Today’s Attacks, Press Release Added
Today Anonymous hacktivist @Thewikiboat has been attacking nazi based websites, recently they have just started attacking glencore.com which at time of publishing was still currently offline. They have also released a press release with detailed but simple reasons behind these attacks. Today we wanted to celebrate WikiBoat Wednesday with another wave of DDoS attacks. We wanted to…
Pakistan Web host Winshosting blog defaced by Indishell
A large and popular free/paid web hosting Winshosting service has had its blog attacked and defaced by Indian based hacker group indishell. the attack comes as many other Pakistani websites have been breached and attacked today as well. The blog appears to of been restored but there is a mirror on arab-zone. We got sent a extra message from the attack as…
Kr: Credit cards with bio-info to debut
Na Jeong-ju reports: The state-run disaster control agency is working with a credit card company to issue cards that will contain biological information about holders to enable a quick and effective treatment in the event of an emergency. Heated debate concerning possible privacy violation and the consequences a leakage of such information could bring will…
Pakistani server hacked, 100+ sites left defaced by silent hacker
Indishell hacker, silent hacker has sent us another load of sites that have been defaced after a server was breached. the sites are Pakistani based and all appear to only have the suspendedpage notice changed. > Message to Porkies Lamers Just Back Off from Indian Cyber Space We have seen many kids like You Just defacing D grade sites Bunch of…