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UTAH Medicaid hacked – over 181,000 records and 25,000 SSNs stolen

The Utah Department of Technology Services DTS notified the Utah Department of Health UDOH on Monday the server that houses Medicaid claims was hacked. On Wednesday, the UDOH publicly announced […]

Times Square Marriott Injects javascript to break privacy and serve ads

Apparently, the Time Square Marriott cannot make profit at $ 368/night.   The use technology to infect/inject every web page that you view with altered ads.   Would we put […]

What Should Matrimonial Attorneys Know About Cyberforensics?

According to surveys of U.S. and U.K. matrimonial attorneys, more and more of them are asking (or requiring) their clients to disclose Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media credentials […]

FTC fines RockYou $250,000 for storing user data in plain text

social game developer RockYou suffered a serious SQL injection flaw on its flagship website. Worse, the company was storing user details in plain text. As a result, tens of millions […]

Employer Fires Aide Over Refusal to Give Up Facebook Password

It’s not just kids anymore – adults with quirky humor, facebooking on their own time, with their own equipment are also being harassed.   From Time.com: A teacher’s aide in […]

French and US corporations sell unpatched exploits to highest bidders

France-based VUPEN is one of the highest-profile firms trafficking in zero-day exploits. Earlier this month at the CanSecWest information security conference, VUPEN declined to participate in the Google-sponsored Pwnium hacking […]

iPad's 'Dictation' sends info to Apple servers

“Dictation” is one of the features of the new iPad, and it can be used to dictate notes, emails, text messages. But new iPad owners may want to use it […]

Is Your New HDTV Watching You?

Samsung UN65ES8000; group photo ©iStockphoto.com/Jennifer Byron Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin […]

AT&T collected millions from taxpayers in fraudulent charges, US says

AT&T improperly received millions of dollars from a government reimbursement fund by ignoring fraudulent use of the IP Relay call system provided free of charge to hearing- and speech-impaired US […]

Cybercops traced Toulouse massacre suspect through IP address

The IP address of a computer used to view a motorbike sales ad posted by an early victim of the Toulouse gunman played a vital role in narrowing down Mohamed […]