An independent investigator who reviewed privacy violations at Veterans Affairs Canada told the Harper government in late 2010 it was appropriate to include the personal medical information of an outspoken advocate in briefing material, say internal federal documents. The central finding of the Amprax Inc. review flies in the face of the country’s privacy watchdog,…
A Bit Too Much Klout: User Says He Can Sign In To Someone Else’s Account
Ingrid Lunden writes: It’s not clear if this is a one-off glitch, a signal of a bigger issue — or a way of pumping up/sabotaging Klout scores for those who care. But it’s not great news any way you spin it, if it’s true: a Klout user has gotten in touch to say that when…
TalkTalk subsidiary’s customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie (updated with response from TalkTalk)
Bill Ray reports: Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn’t care. The details include customer and contract prices, copies of sales orders and spreadsheets showing how things are going at the subsidiary which TalkTalk…
About #OpLithChild & A Video Message to the Government of Lithuania from Anonymous
Last week we did a report on the anonymous operation #Oplithchild which has had a great deal of public interest across the Internet so far after a video was released exposing the abuse by police against children. The following video is from anonymous to the Government of Lithuania. There is also the following video which gives a…
Joel Tenenbaum sued for 675k for downloading 30 songs
Well this is what the Internet is coming to, the governments idea of fighting cyber crime is taking a single person, Joel Tenenbaum to court and making them pay 600K+ for downloading 30 songs. As the reporter in the below video states, everyone has downloaded music and we see that this is just pure overkill. The…
Anonymous Release Message About #OpNewSon Claimed Failure
Last Week was meant to be the start of a all new operation named #OpNewSon which was being carried out against high profile targets. Well on the first day of the claimed operation it pretty much fell apart, with the social networks calling it a fail operation anonymous hacktivist have now released a small statement attempting to explain what…