Here’s a follow-up on a breach originally reported last year. Michael Lee reports: Following a leak of client information, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has determined that Medvet Laboratories breached the Privacy Act, despite there being no client bank account details, customer names or test results exposed online. The privacy bungle was first reported by The Australian on 16…
And yet more updates to HHS's breach tool
HHS added another batch of reports to its breach tool last week. Here are the ones I hadn’t known about already from either the media or reports to state attorneys general: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000″,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There doesn’t seem to be any media coverage of this breach,…
IL: Steakhouse Beefs Up Security
Jeremy Clements reports: The owner of an Alton restaurant is reaching out to customers to let them know that they have stepped up security to prevent another credit card scam from occurring. Two years ago five people, including two employees of Amarillo Tex’s Steakhouse and Saloon were caught skimming customers credit card numbers. Since that…
Webroot website vulnerable to XSS attack by @MR_Boter of NetBashers
A long time away but they have returned here and there and now they have sent us a new XSS on a well known anti security/anti malware for home/company and mobile website. The target is https://www.webroot.com and the attack has been on one of its audit pages. The exact URL of the attack has been censored to prevent any…
Cam4Bucks Hacked, Source Leaked By @lulz_much_lulz
A hacker using the twitter handle @lulz_much_lulz has just announced a leak of source code that belongs to a well known cams website. The website cam4bucks www.cam4bucks.com allows people to sign up and start their own cam shows with the chance of earning money from it. @lulz_much_lulz has announce that a 77mb compressed file that has been uploaded…
Another australian government website hacked and defaced by @Op_Australia
Early last week a newer operation sprung up within Australia. The operation is dubbed #OpAustralia and has been started in light of the recent security changes our government has proposed. Last week a sunshine coast website was attacked and the administration were fighting with the hackers who still had access via the coldfusion based admin panel but…