This falls under workplace privacy as well as health privacy: The Netherlands’ biggest private health and safety firm (arbodienst) has been passing confidential medical information to employers, television current affairs show Zembla will report on Friday evening. Many Dutch firms rely on private companies to monitor health and safety in the workplace, follow up on…
peruanosonline.com hacked and massive account leak
A social network website that is based in peru has been hit by hackers who have dumped the complete database online and left the site ruined after it. The site peruanosonline.com when check before publishing was displaying the following message. SQL query error! Error infomation:– – – – – – [SQL] select * from jcow_gvars [Error]…
CardioNet reports two breaches involving laptop theft (?) and other breaches newly revealed on HHS's breach tool
Sometimes it takes a while for me to track down details on a breach after seeing it mentioned on HHS’s breach tool. And sometimes, it’s just too late. A case in point is an entry for Flex Physical Therapy in Washington, where apparently 3,100 patients were affected by a computer theft on December 30, 2011. But…
Anonymous Launch #Operation Imperva
Imperva, a security firm has released a document on anonymous activities over 2011 which have sparked a new operation agasint them. The document from Imperva makes strong claims it reveals the way anonymous has worked in the past by studying them over a very short period of time.
LulzSec Returns? lol come on main media wake up!!!
A video has surfaced that main media seems to be picking up on, the video which claims that the infamous hacking group lulzsec is making a return. The video which was posted on the fawkessecurity youtube account sports some other interesting hash tags that have raised further questions. As for lulzsec coming back, we would like to remind…
Teboho Masoleng Sentenced to 15years for cyber crimes
At the start of the year south African police cracked down on a cyber gang who was in the process of stealing millions from hacked and phished bank accounts. As a result of this the first person has now been sentenced to serve 15years in jail for his part in the cyber crimes. In a report coming from a…