@anon_4freedom has been at it again hacking high profile websites that are well known. The latest adds to the attacks that Universal music has had over the past months with the Brazil and Portugal websites already being hacked as well as many others in the name of SOPA and ACTA. The latest leak has dumped a load of accounts,…
U.N Food And Agricultural Organization Defaced
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-dr-hacker-faisal_al_dfery.png A hacker using the handle Dr.HaCkEr has added to the already big list of United nations websites that have been hacked and left defaced. The most recent belongs to the Food And Agricultural Organization Of the United Nations, and more so the north east subdomain. In the deface is a message from Syria to…
Data Breach Case Research Paper Sheds Light
Kristin J. Mathews writes: In a draft research paper titled “Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation”, three prominent scholars have collected and analyzed a sample of over 230 federal data breach lawsuits in order to deduce just what makes them tick. Romanosky, Hoffman and Acquisti examined, for example, what factual and legal characteristics made a company more likely to be…
Outsider Hacks Dominated 2011 Security Breaches
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports from RSA: More than 85% of the data breach incident response cases investigated by Verizon Business last year originated from a hack, and more than 90% of them came from the outside rather than via a malicious insider or business partner. Tuesday, Verizon published a snapshot of data from its upcoming…
UK: One member of staff sacked and another reprimanded after data breaches at Northampton General Hospital
Nick Spoors reports: One member of staff was sacked and another severely reprimanded for accessing details of Northampton General Hospital patients they were not treating, a new report reveals. The report on data breaches at NGH in 2011, said measures were now in place to guard against information falling into the wrong hands, but warned…
UK: ICO reveals four new undertakings following data breaches
From the ICO: Durham University breached the Data Protection Act after disclosing personal information in training materials published on its website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal data was contained in screenshots used to demonstrate the use of particular University systems and included details such as names, addresses and dates of birth…