Nixon flips “privacy” rhetoric on GOP in workers’ compensation bill veto: Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed a workers’ compensation bill on Tuesday that he said would have “invaded Missourians’ privacy, required creation of new government database.” The rhetoric came in the midst of a battle between Nixon and a Republican-led opposition critical of his administration’s Department of […]

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal: Here’s a reminder of what happened: Weev and Daniel Spitler discovered and publicized a security hole in AT&T’s website. After spoofing his web browser to look like an iPad, Spitler discovered that AT&T’s website published iPad users’ email addresses when someone entered a […]

U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement: Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, but that is only a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is […]

Tens of Organizations Impacted by Vendini Data Breach: In mid-June, we learned that box-office and online ticketing services provider Vendini suffered a data breach that impacted several of the company’s customers. At the time, we only knew of the University of Michigan, but it turns out that several other organizations have been affected as well. DataBreaches.net […]

US Air Force Culture and Language Center Site Taken Down After Being Hacked: Hackers of the Turkish Ajan collective have breached the official website of the Air Force Culture and Language Center (culture.af.mil). The hackers have told HackRead that they’ve managed to alter the site’s content, replacing original information with their own. In addition, they’ve managed to […]

Ephrata Community Hospital Says Employee Illegally Accessed Medical Records: Another healthcare organization reports suffering a security breach. According to a notice posted on its website, the Ephrata Community Hospital in Pennsylvania has learned that one of its employees has accessed patient medical records outside job duties. The organization says the employee in question has not […]

Ubisoft servers attacked; usernames, encrypted passwords taken: Servers belonging to video game publisher Ubisoft have been compromised in a recent attack. Hackers are said by the company to have gained access to sensitive data, including usernames, e-mails, and encrypted passwords, and has started to e-mail Uplay account holders to warn about the intrusion and the data […]

Pakistan’s Quaid-i-Azam University Breached by Indian Hacker, Data Leaked: The cyber battles between Indian and Pakistani hacktivists continue. In the latest round, an Indian hacker that uses the online moniker “Indian Assassin” breached the systems of the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. The hacker has leaked the webmail usernames, email addresses and password hashes of around […]

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs Hacked by RedHack: Hackers of the RedHack collective have breached the systems of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs. The hacktivists said the attack was launched in protest against the Sivas massacre that took place 20 years ago. The hackers have published the username and password for the systems of the Directorate of Religious […]

How a 30-year-old lawyer exposed NSA mass surveillance of Americans—in 1975: Back in 1975, however, the situation was likely even worse. The NSA literally “never before had an oversight relationship with the Congress.” Creating that relationship fell to an unlikely man: 30 year old lawyer L. Britt Snider, who knew almost nothing about foreign intelligence. Snider […]