More than ten million people were exposed to drive-by download risks in February. Research from Barracuda Labs into the world’s top 25,000 websites discovered that one popular site will serve malicious content every day, statistically. Its report found that the top-ranked domains served malicious content on all but six days in February, while the top-ranked [...]
19 Sep 2011 |
Mitsubishi Missile Factory HackedMitsubishi Heavy Industries announced over a Japanese paper that 80 of their servers had been hacked with the intent to obtain data relating to submarines, missiles and nuclear power plants. At the moment it is understood that no sensitive information has been leaked. The Japanese government where not best pleased to find out about the breach via the local [...] 
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16 Sep 2011 |
1.6 Million Patient Records Lost In A LandfillA undertaking has been taken out by the ICO recently against Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust. It disclosed that 1.6 million records were lost in a landfill site. The records were being kept on a CD in a filing cabinet which is relatively safe, however while changing offices a miscommunication lead to the filing cabinet [...]
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14 Sep 2011 |
File Share Provider Hit With VirusBitTorrent’s sister company uTorrent was hacked yesterday meaning that within a certain time frame users of the site are under threat. Impressively the threat was identified and neutralized within a few hours. To eliminate the threat infected servers were taken offline till the issue was resolved, normal service has been resumed now. BitTorrent have not confirmed [...]
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