Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use: Protecting Electronic Health Information

Since 2009, healthcare providers and other companies providing services to the healthcare industry have been mobilizing to take advantage of government incentives to implement Electronic Health Records or EHRs. These incentives were established by federal law as a part of the HITECH Act of 2009,...

Hackers Plan Satellite Network to Fight Internet Censorship

A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network. Sound like science fiction? According to BBC News, the plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Dubbed the...

Web of Trust (WOT) Wins in Court, Favors freedom of speech

Web of Trust WOT Wins in Court, Favors freedom of speech The world's leading safe surfing tool Web of Trust WOT has won the lawsuit filed against it in the United States. WOT was accused of defamation, violating rights, conspiracy and manipulating algorithms. The court of justice in Florida grant...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...

Key House Hearing on SOPA Bill Set For Today

All eyes will be on Capitol Hill this morning when the House Judiciary Committee holds a key hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which has drawn wide opposition from a variety of groups and companies for its broad language supposedly designed to prevent copyright infringement. Th...

German Engineer Arrested In Card Skimming Plot

A German engineer was sentenced to three years in jail on Friday after he was found transporting card skimming technology into Britain according to a report from Reuters UK. Thomas Beeckmann, 26, was stopped at London’s Victoria Coach Station in June with 17 electronic scamming circuits. The...

Expert: Eight Years Later, 'Snowshoe Spam' Suggests CAN SPAM Not Working

BARCELONA — If you thought the CAN SPAM Act of 2003 nailed the coffin closed on the legality of spamming in the U.S., you’d be wrong. In fact, CAN SPAM compliant spam e-mail – sometimes referred to as ‘Snowshoe Spam’ is a growing source of nuisance e-mail messages hitting inboxes in the U.S. and...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security LulzSec have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online...

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects

Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security LulzSec have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online...

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have today, 1 September, arrested two men for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested ...

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police

Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have today, 1 September, arrested two men for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Two men, aged 20 and 24, have been arrested ...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

History Sniffing Case Dismissed Because Defendant Fails to Quantify Losses

A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

Viruses and Vendors Can Put Healthcare Data At Risk

A recent article in Healthcare Security Info highlights that computer viruses can cause security breaches, that can then in turn compromise health care data and potentially violate the HIPAA and HITECH Act regulations. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston had to notify more than 2,000...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the...