The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week announced that the University of California at Los Angeles Health Services (UCLAHS) has agreed to pay a $865,000 fine and pledged to tweak their infrastructure after potentially breaking the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Over a million user IDs and e-mail addresses of job applicants were taken from the Washington Post’s Web site after being hacked late last week, according to a statement posted on the Post’s Web site.
Retail brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) has notified 34,000 investment clients that some of their data has been lost, including their names, addresses, social security numbers, tax identification numbers and investment income from 2010, according to a report on the Dow Jones newswires.
It’s been an ugly year so far for the security industry. In fact, if you’re looking at it objectively, almost nothing has gone right in the last six months. The long list of attacks this year–including RSA, Sony, Epsilon, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup and many others–coupled with the emergence of amorphous hacking groups like LulzSec and Anonymous on the scene have led to a growing sentiment in the industry that security has become an exercise in futility and that, one way or another, we’re all owned.
If you somehow needed further evidence after the run we’ve been on with WikiLeaks, Anonymous and LulzSec that security and hacking have invaded the mainstream consciousness, that evidence has arrived in the form of a philosophical question from none other than Kim Kardashian.
Nearly three months after marketing services firm Epsilon had its system breached, the company has begun to rebuild the security of its e-mail marketing platform.
While this spring’s PlayStation Network hack was certainly massive, a new infographic from Veracode illustrates just how sprawling the attack really was. The graphic traces the breach back to April’s “external intrusion” and eventual shuttering of Sony’s online gaming
network along with the subsequent hack of Sonypictures.com.
The shadowy hacking group LulzSec has posted a message saying that it is disbanding after just 50 days.
Barely a week goes by that woeful statistics on the proliferation of cyber crime don’t make headlines in the trade and mainstream press. But a new study by Microsoft Research finds that many of those surveys are so rife with catastrophic statistical errors as to make their conclusions almost useless.
Sega has responded to the attack on its Sega Pass gaming network, saying that data belonging to more than a million of its customers was stolen. The attack on Sega, which came to light last week, is the latest in a string of such compromises of gaming and media companies.
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