The University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) has agreed to pay $865,500 in order to settle two potential violations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a... |
11 July 2011
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Dropbox is going through a security firestorm after it accidentally introduced a bug that allowed users to access other people's accounts without a password."Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix... |
21 June 2011
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A former Cisco engineer was arrested last year on charges of hacking into his former employer's network and is currently awaiting extradition in Canada.The charges against Peter Alfred-Adekeye, a British national who worked for Cisco before leaving to start his own company, were reported in local Vancouver media... |
21 April 2011
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Security researchers from Sophos warn that a new wave of PayPal phishing emails are hitting people's inboxes in an attempt to trick them into exposing their login credentials.The emails bear a subject of "Please confirm your identity" and have forged headers to appear as originating from PayPal.However, it appea... |
24 February 2011
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Three companies that resell consumer credit reports have settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against them after failing to keep people's sensitive information secure.The FTC filed administrative complaints against SettlementOne Credit Corporation, ACRAnet Inc and Statewide Credit Servic... |
4 February 2011
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Local news agencies in Saudi Arabia report that four teenagers were arrested this week for stealing over $530,000 from ATMs by using game cards bought from a local mall. The alleged thieves accidentaly discovered a strange flaw in certain ATMs where by inserting a particular type of game card they could withdraw the ... |
26 November 2010
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A computer specialist has been arrested and indicted for breaking into his former employer's computer network one year after he was let go. The admin is accused of causing significant damage by deleting records and crippling critical communication systems such as email and telephone. Luis Robert Altamarino work... |
8 August 2009
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An investigation carried out by Sky News uncovered severe abuses of trust in computer repair shops around London. Technicians purposely misdiagnosed a simple problem in order to charge more, while others rifled through or copied documents clearly marked as private. Sky News reporters took a brand-new laptop with Win... |
24 July 2009
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A Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a 28-year-old man for sabotaging a critical system used to monitor oil pipelines for leaks. The authorities claim that the former IT consultant did it because the company he was working for did not offer him permanent employment. Mario Azar, 28, of Upland, California, us... |
19 March 2009
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An episode of the BBC Click technology program that is scheduled to air today has generated a lot of controversy in the IT security community. The documentary tries to raise awareness over the growing threat of computer botnets, but in doing so it might have broken the law, numerous security professionals claim.In or... |
14 March 2009
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Several popular proxy server packages can pose a significant security risk when running in transparent interception mode, due to an architectural flaw. By tricking a user behind the proxy server into loading maliciously-crafted active code inside the browser, an attacker can obtain access to resources on the internal... |
24 February 2009
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The University of Florida is in the process of notifying over 97,200 current and former students and staff that their personally identifiable information might have been accessed by unauthorized parties. The university's IT staff has recently discovered that an e-learning system that dates back to 1996 had ... |
21 February 2009
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A message that read “The monkey got out of the cage” was sent to the mobile phones of students and staff from the University of Florida on the Inauguration Day. A man confessed to misusing the university's system and sending the message, which many thought was a racist slur against President Barack O... |
22 January 2009
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Political-motivated security incidents seem to keep piling up this year, as Barack Obama's transition team announced a security breach involving the President-elect's cell phone records. The information appears to have been illegally accessed by employees from the Verizon Wireless cell phone operator. Rober... |
21 November 2008
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Steven Barnes from Mill Valley, California pleaded guilty for hacking into the e-mail servers of Blue Falcon Networks and tampering with them. He was previously fired by the company, for which he worked as an IT manager for eight months between 2002 and 2003.Blue Falcon Networks (BFN), now Akimbo Systems, is a San Ma... |
5 November 2008
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