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Utah Health Department discovers 750,000 additional stolen records

, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, I mentioned that the Utah Department of Health had been the victim of a hack resulting in the loss of 181,604 Medicaid billing records. A significant amount of those records also resulted in the loss of patient Social Security numbers. Things have now been found to be much worse than originally thought with Utah officials finding hundreds of thousands of more records that were stolen. Read The Full Story

Anonymous not finished with China – More attacks coming soon

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [15]

Those popular hacktivists are at it again this past week, hacking hundreds and hundreds of Chinese government websites recently. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and have even more plans for the Chinese government coming soon, and bigger targets. Read The Full Story

Utah Department of Health loses over 181k records in hack

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you or someone you know in the state of Utah is on Medicaid or CHIP we have some bad news. Apparently, the Utah Department of Technology Services notified the Utah Department of Health that the server hosting Medicaid claims had been hacked. The extent of the damage was announced last week and Utah's Department of Health lost 181,604 personal information records. Read The Full Story

Forget Air Display: turn your Kindle DX into a second screen

, Apr 3rd 2012 Discuss [2]

If Air Display for the iPad caught your fancy but you have a Kindle DX rather than Apple's tablet, how about turning that E Ink ereader into a secondary screen instead. Arguably a whole lot less practical for general use, the nonetheless clever hack detailed by TinyApps involves jailbreaking the Kindle DX and then using a VNC viewer to set it up as a remote screen for your Mac. Read The Full Story

Visa drops Global Payments following breach

, Apr 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Visa has dropped Global Payments from its list of compliant service providers following the security breach revealed last week that may have compromised as many as 1.5 million cardholder accounts. Global Payments CEO Paul Garcia believes that his company should return to the list once it comes back to compliance, although he didn't give a more specific time frame. Read The Full Story

Global Payments admits 1.5 million credit card numbers stolen

, Apr 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the major credit card processors called Global Payments Incorporated announced on Friday that it had identified and reported a hack into its credit card processing system. The company says that the affected portion of the processing system operates in North America only and as many as 1.5 million credit card numbers may have been stolen in the hack. Read The Full Story

Secret Service confirms credit card hack investigation

, Mar 31st 2012 Discuss [6]

A credit card hack potentially impacting millions of shoppers with MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover accounts is being investigated by the US Secret Service, it has been confirmed, with retailers potentially bearing the brunt of any cash stolen. Money middleman Global Payments confirmed the March breach last week, though failed to put an exact figure on how many bank and card customers may have been affected; the Secret Service confirmed that it is looking into the hack, the CSMonitor reports. Read The Full Story

Sony downloadable PSP games yanked from Vita online store

, Mar 28th 2012 Discuss [2]

Sony has decided to pull a couple of downloadable PSP games from the PlayStation Vita version of the PlayStation Store because hackers have managed to exploit code contained within. The affected games has vulnerablilities that allowed the hackers to run homebrew applications on the Vita, something Sony has been extremely vocal about banning. So as expected, company bigwigs were not happy about this. Read The Full Story

LulzSec returns: hacks military dating website

, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [2]

Members of LulzSec may have been arrested earlier in the month by the FBI, but that doesn’t stop others picking up the name and running with it. A group of hacktivists calling themselves LulzSec Reborn yesterday hacked into dating website Military Singles. They managed to gather information on 170,937 accounts, and dumped all the email addresses and passwords for others to download. Read The Full Story

Nokia N9 gets Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 dual-boot

, Mar 22nd 2012 Discuss [13]

Nokia N9 hardware and Android Ice Cream Sandwich: be still our beating hearts. The ongoing Nitdroid project to put Android on the MeeGo-powered N9 has come up with a new 4.0.3 alpha release, allowing owners to boot between the official OS and an unofficial injection of Ice Cream Sandwich. The list of working functionality is surprisingly long, too, given its alpha status: multitouch, 3D drivers and OpenGL, and GSM/3G connectivity are all playing ball. Read The Full Story

Mobile Safari vulnerable to spoofing exploit in iOS 5.1

, Mar 22nd 2012 Discuss [2]

A new vulnerability has been found in Apple’s mobile Safari browser for iOS 5.1. MajorSecurity first discovered the exploit, which would allow a hacker to display a different website URL than what is actually being visited in the browser, potentially leading to phishing attacks. Read The Full Story

DIY Birdman soars like an albatross

, Mar 21st 2012 Discuss [9]

"Up in the air, Junior Birdman!" A Dutch inventor has successfully created a pair of human-scale bird wings that, thanks to a DIY control system using Wiimotes among other things, allowed him to fly around 100m. Enthusiast Jarno Smeets mimicked the wing design of an albatross, with wings crafted from kite fabric and the flyer's own flapping efforts amplified by motors. Read The Full Story
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