The [New Zealand] Government’s making no apologies for revealing the welfare payments of two solo mums. Natasha Fuller, who is taking home $715 a week and Jennifer Johnston, who gets $554, have both have been complaining about their tertiary training allowances being axed. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says they’ve chosen to go public with…
Category: Breaches
Twitter breach revives security issues with cloud computing
Security and privacy issues over cloud computing are not very different from those surrounding any sort of IT outsourcing and need to be treated that way, security managers and analysts say in the wake of breaches involving Twitter and Google Apps. The incident has resurfaced many familiar concerns relating to cloud computing and is raising…
When is personal data truly de-identified?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is about to rule whether health care entities will need to notify patients if their de-identified data — patient data that has been stripped of all potential for identifying individuals, which is often used for research and development — is breached. As it stands now, de-identified…
Exposed: Repair shops hack your laptops
Some computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data on customers’ hard drives – and even trying to hack their bank accounts, a Sky News investigation has found. In one case, passwords, log-in details and holiday photographs were all copied onto a portable memory stick by a technician. […] Inside one of the documents copied…