Jessika Lewis reports: The owner of St. Augustine-based cleaning company Mr. Janitor was arrested for stealing personal information from some Eagle Harbor Country Club members. According to Detective William Roberts with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Jonathan Morris II used that info to open credit cards and even bank accounts in alleged victims’ names. […]…
Law enforcement can access data bank without doctors' knowledge
Carolyne Krupa reports: Physicians and other health professionals no longer will be notified if someone accesses information about them through the National Practitioner Data Bank for an investigation, according to a federal rule that takes effect Dec. 23. The rule, an exemption to the Privacy Act, is meant to prevent tampering with evidence and is…
Julia Gillard takes control of Australia’s cyber security
2011, the year of the hacker and hacktivist has pushed many governments from around the world to make changes to the national cyber security, make treaties with other countries and do an overall clean-up. Today Australian Prime minister julia Gillard released a "changes to the ministry" press release on the PM’s website, reading thru this i came…
Florida Family Association hacked and warned by Anonymous
A hacker going under the Anonymous/antisec flag has spent a bit of time on the Florida Family Association servers, grabbed some data and left a nice warning with the leak of data. The dump of information and warning was first posted via ihazcAnNONz twitter account and dumped on pastebin. content/images/gallery/random2/twitter-ihazcannonz-antisec-anonymous-ohai.png the warning: Florida Family Association feels the need to…
20,000 CPPS Testville accounts leaked
CPPS, club penguin public servers, an online gaming community has once again been hit by hackers who have hacked and leaked a huge amount of user accounts. The hack is on the game Testville, and contains username, emails and encrypted passwords. All together there is over 20,000 accounts. this isn’t the first time we have seen cpps hit,…
VT: Doctor pleads guilty to accessing patient records
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced last week that Joshua Welch, 35, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to the crime of unlawfully obtaining the private medical information of another person. Welch pleaded before United States District Judge William K. Sessions III in Burlington. According to statements made…