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SEOUL, July 29 | Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:41am EDT (Reuters) – KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 wireless service provider, apologised on Sunday after personal data of millions of mobile phone subscribers was hacked. It is the latest in a string of large-scale personal information hacking cases in one of the world’s most wired […]

By Jordan Robertson on August 10, 2012 As more patient records go digital, a recent hacker attack on a small medical practice shows the big risks involved with electronic files. The Surgeons of Lake County, a medical facility in the northern Illinois suburb of Libertyville, revealed last month that hackers had burrowed deeply into its […]

Emergency Windows update nukes credentials minted by Terminal Services bug. by Dan Goodin – June 4 2012, 0:59am PDT Microsoft released an emergency Windows update on Sunday after revealing that one of its trusted digital signatures was being abused to certify the validity of the Flame malware that has infected computers in Iran and other […]

By Jon Fingas posted May 28th 2012 5:07PM ware 2012 5:07PM Much ado was made when security experts found Stuxnet wreaking havoc, but it’s looking as though the malware was just a prelude to a much more elaborate attack that’s plaguing the Middle East. Flame, a backdoor Windows trojan, doesn’t just sniff and steal nearby […]

By Margaret Rock The theft of about 780,000 online medical records by unknown hackers from state computers in Utah is sounding alarm bells about the protections of sensitive data. Last month, hackers stole the data of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients and participants from Utah’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, including the Social Security numbers […]

By Matthew Weigelt The General Services Administration issued guidelines in March on how to properly get rid of old computers, but, in a recent report, the Government Accountability Office said GSA would need reinforcements to get all the agencies’ attention. GAO wrote that it’s imperative for the White House Council on Environmental Quality to issue […]

Published May 03, 2012 | Space.com A new hacking group calling itself “The Unknowns” has published a list of passwords and documents reportedly belonging to NASA, the European Space Agency and the U.S. Air Force, among other high-profile government targets. The group’s Pastebin post, released yesterday (May 1), includes names and passwords reportedly belonging to […]

By Mark Long April 30, 2012 1:48PM Hackers stole 187 million personal identities last year, with the average yield per data breach amounting to 1.1 million identities, Symantec said. Identity theft gleaned from lost or stolen PCs or mobile devices also exposed 18.5 million identities in 2011. And malicious attacks increased by 81 percent in […]

Second data breach at a state Medicaid agency in less than a month shows need to limit employee access to confidential data, regardless of other security procedures. By Ken Terry,  InformationWeek April 24, 2012 For the second time in less than a month, there has been a major data security breach at a state Medicaid […]

[author: Aaron Kase] by Lawyers.com on 4/19/2012 Think your credit card information is secure? Think again. Last month, Heartland Payment Systems, a national credit processor, settled a class action lawsuit to the tune of $1 million after a staggering 130 million credit card numbers were stolen from its system by hackers in December 2007. Only […]