Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
6GB Emails from Companies world wide leaked after Sykes and trend micro attack by .c0mrade
Last week we covered a story that got laughed at and went pretty much unnoticed by most of the public, trend micro and well known corporation sykes had been hacked and had its data leaked from a mail server by well known hacker, .c0mrade @OfficialComrade Lots of the information security sector has spoken out about…
Kaiser Permanente stuck in odd struggle with tiny Indio vendor
This news report by Chris Rauber appeared on June 1, but I just became aware of it thanks to a reader: Giant Kaiser Permanente has found itself locked in a David-and-Goliath-scale struggle with a tiny Southern California record storage vendor over up to 1 million unencrypted Kaiser patient records the vendor claims remain on servers in his…
EU wants breach notification for certificate authorities
Stewart Mitchell reports: European authorities plan to clamp down on certificate authorities, demanding security signing organisations speak up if hit by hackers. Certificate authorities – either private or government backed – issue digital certificates that verify web pages and code, and are a key component of the web running smoothly and securely. But as last…
Ca: BCIT warns medical database security breached
From CBC News: BCIT [British Columbia Institute of Technology] has issued a warning to students and staff after one of its computers servers containing the personal medical records of more than 12,680 students was hacked. The Vancouver-area post-secondary school says a regular security audit determined an unauthorized third party accessed the server used by the…
UK: Welcome Financial Services Limited Fined £150,000 After Backup Tapes With Customer Contact Info Lost
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Organisations are learning the hard way of the consequences of mishandling people’s information – and others need to heed the lessons the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, warned today at the launch of the ICO’s 2011/12 annual report. The Commissioner’s comments came as the ICO imposed a civil monetary penalty (CMP) of…