PHILIPPINES and United States authorities arrested Wednesday four members of a Filipino hackers group whose operation is allegedly being financed by a Saudi Arabia-based terrorist group. Wednesday night’s operation stemmed from the complaint of AT&T, a US-based telecommunication company and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the activities of Filipino hackers who hacked the…
Milton Keynes arrested for News of the world hacks
Finally an official arrest has happened in the UK over the claimed world of news hacks. From whats been an ongoing saga and a headache for the murdoch family and taken complete news outlets offline, resulted in suicide and hacks and data leaks by lulzsec it has finally got to the point where the law has arrested Milton Keynes, a 52yo man…
Save Mart warns customers to check accounts after skimmers found in 20 stores
Rick Hurd reports: Modesto-based Save Mart Supermarkets is warning customers at several of its Bay Area stores that their personal banking information may have been compromised. The company issued a news release Wednesday saying that upon routine maintenance, store employees found credit and debit card readers that had been tampered with in the self-checkout lanes…
UK: Police probe hospital patient privacy breach
Gareth Rose reports: An investigation is under way into a breach of patient confidentiality at one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals after a cleaner looked up a young mother’s medical records on a computer and used them to pester her online. The worker noticed the woman while she was being treated at the hospital’s accident and…
Ie: Health workers warned over protecting patients' data
Ronan McGreevy reports: Health professions have been warned that ignorance is no excuse for the law in relation to the handling of patients’ records. More than 10,000 copies of a new handbook, which explains the law governing data protection and includes a self-assessment tool, will be distributed to people involved in keeping patients’ records. What…
Degrading cyber images to be illegal in SA
AAP The South Australian government wants to make it an offence to take degrading or humiliating pictures or video of people and then post them on the internet. Attorney-General John Rau said the government’s draft bill followed the growing use of the internet and social media as tools to humiliate and degrade victims. Mr Rau…