R Jagannathan writes: There are only questions, and no answers so far, on Sonia Gandhi’s illness that required a surgery. One, how can the nation’s most powerful political leader, virtual chief executive of the ruling party, not let us know that there was something for us to be concerned about? Two, how is it that…
Press Release from Freedom fights and the Green party hacked
@ForFreed0m has released a press release and dump of info from the Green Party in name of #antisec. PR: To every man, woman & child… We want an end to the glamorization of negativity in the media. We want an end to status symbols dictating our worth as individuals. We want a meaningful and free universal…
UK: Thousands of tenants’ details, including 800 bank account numbers, found on memory stick left in a London pub
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…
University of Arizona responds to email hack
DA Morales reports on an email hack that didn’t involve any PII but serves as a reminder that you can have a long passphrase or great password, but that’s not enough: The computer security at the UA seems tough to beat, or so it seemed until last night. If you have ever had to set…
Pakistan Government personal data hacked by @NetBashers
The Pakistan government has had some workers personal information leaked online, this comes from @Netbasher from the leak data comes from pdma.gov.pk and consists of emails, names, numbers. Leak: https://pastebin.com/DD4xwG7H Few leaks from @CMDL1NE as well. Jacksonfumc.org https://pastebin.com/PpkdqKxs As-system.si https://pastebin.com/fqmN5Wat
Data Breach Bills Exclude Health Information
I’ve often disagreed with the Center for Democracy & Technology, but I laud them for pointing out the glaring holes in proposed federal data security and data breach notification laws that exclude health information. Harley Geiger writes: One of the negative side-effects of the sectoral approach the United States has taken to privacy regulation is confusion over…