Helen Shen and Nature magazine report: California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state’s citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing their growing concerns that, if passed, such a law would have a costly and damaging effect on research. The bill, dubbed the Genetic Information Privacy Act, would require an individual’s written consent for…
UK: London NHS Trust fined £90,000 for serious data breach (updated)
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust has been fined £90,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today. The breach first occurred in March last year, after patient lists from the Pembridge Palliative Care Unit, intended for St John’s Hospice, were faxed to the wrong recipient. The…
NATO Taken Offline By Anonymous
content/images/gallery/random3/oops-google-chrome-could-not-connect-to-www-nato_-int_.png In what’s been a busy weekend for ddos attacks on the higher profile sites anonymous have been also set on the www.nato.int for a few hours now which has resulted in the site being offline. When checking the site it was currently still offline as the attack was still going on but google chrome seemed to…
Metro Goldwyn Mayer, mgm.com taken offline by @UG
content/images/gallery/random3/oops-google-chrome-could-not-connect-to-mgm-com_.png In whats turning out to be a weekend for higher profile target ddos attacks well know private movie production company mgm has had its website https://mgm.com/ taken down by #UGNAZI, most likely for the continuing fight for against censorship of all kinds. The announcement came from the @UG twitter account and at time of publishing the site…
Chicago Police Website Taken Down and Message to Chicago Police By Anonymous
content/images/gallery/random3/oops-google-chrome-could-not-find-chicagopolice-org_.png Anonymous hacktivist have started an operation towards the Chicago police department and its websites. In what was announced earlier today via a video on youtube has resulted in the Police departments website now being taken down by ddos. The attacks have been aimed at https://chicagopolice.org which is a community information site for the Chicago police. At time…
Green Card assessment scam site usafis.org destroyed by @s3rverexe
A well known scam site https://www.usafis.org has been taken offline by @s3rverexe. The site being offline is not due to a simple ddos attack but more so the system has been wiped, destroyed so nothing is actually there anymore to load. The release has been posted on pastebin and contains information from the attack and about the server…