Alex Philippidis writes about recent trends in addressing privacy concerns in genomic studies. He writes, in part: Dr. McGuire led a research team that published results in Genetics in Medicine last year from their study of consent given to researchers by 323 adults recruited into one of six genome studies at BCM. The adults were randomly assigned…
Belfast Trust fined £225,000 after leaving thousands of patient records in disused hospital
Another big fine from the ICO: Belfast Health and Social Care (BHSC) Trust has been served with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £225,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The breach involved the sensitive personal data of thousands of patients and staff, and included medical…
CoBank & CitiBank Internal Access By .c0mrade
@OfficialComrade has released another exploit press release that is aimed at two major banks. Cobank and Citibank. In this release he explains the fact that access has been had for over 1 year to these systems. in the release .c0mrade claims to be contacting the banks "the next morning" and also states that these were…
Comcast Hometown Network Hacked, Defaced, Dataleaked by #UGNAZI @UG
@UG have continued to attack company websites, yesterday it was sixflags and today it is comcast hometown network. The official website for the hometown network appears to of been defaced ( index page only ) and also a leak of accounts has been posted to pastebin. The announcement was made from the @UG twitter account UGNazi @UG https://www.comcasthometown.com/#defaced#UGNazi#lulz#Comcast****UGNazi @UG…
Is network offense the best network defense?
Stewart Baker responds to Joseph Menn’s recent report on companies fighting back against attackers. He comments on the different offensive strategies: Here’s the problem. A generation of computer crime lawyers at the Justice Department has devoted their careers to discouraging the reaction that Menn describes. That’s because the fundamental law in this area, the law…
AU: No answers from Qld Health
John Corlett reports: More than one week after a major security breach, Queensland Health still does not know how a number of sensitive medical documents were left lying in the gutter. Rockhampton Hospital began an investigation into the security breach early last week after The Morning Bulletin carried a story revealing that sensitive medical documents…