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Iranian cyber police are accusing the US of orchestrating cyber-attacks against the website for the Iranian oil ministry. Brigadier General Kamal Hadianfar said the attacks lasted four days during the Iranian New Year. The issue is being pursued through legal organizations, and a letter was written to the US about the issue. View full story

We recently wrote about a breach at Medical Management in which a former call center employee of the billing company was accused of stealing patient information and disclosing it to a third party. New healthcare organizations continue to put out notices that some of their patients were affected by that breach including 800 patients at Jefferson Hospital and an unnamed number of patients at Conemaugh Health System, both in Pennsylvania. A spokeswoman for the company said that...

Investigators find it impossible to total clear data from handset when changing phone Emails, texts, pictures, videos and apps can all be retrieved after full wipe Up to 630million phones don’t wipe internal SD cards when phone is reset Investigators say the issue may hinder growth in the phone and app market. Up to 500million Andriod users who use or have used Android software could be at huge risk of having their personal information shared after tests shown it’s impossible...

As expected, the government has set out plans to make it easier for security and police services to spy on electronic communications in the Queen’s Speech. In 2013, the controversial Communications Data Bill, dubbed the “snoopers' charter", was dropped from the Queen’s Speech at the last minute because of opposition from the Liberal Democrats. View full story

For the second time in two months, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has acknowledged it inadvertently released confidential personal data of private citizens, prompting the state to offer free credit monitoring services to protect people from being victims of identity theft. The Department of State said it released names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 13,000 people who were on waiting lists for services for the developmentally disabled in 2003, when Jeb Bush...

In a move that throws the UK’s government IT footprint wide open to hackers of all stripes, the Government Digital Service has decided not to extend its £5.5m deal with Microsoft for support for Windows XP. When the contract runs out at the end of the month (as in, Sunday), “weaknesses that are found in unsupported products will remain unpatched and will be exploitable by relatively low-skilled attackers,” the office warned. Obviously, in the case...

The official website of embassy of Nepal in Washington was hacked by a group of Moroccan hacker not happy with American invasion of Iraq and what happened afterwards. On Sunday 24th May, a group of hackers going with the handle of Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail (MIUM) hacked and defaced the official website of Embassy of Nepal for the United States. View full story

According to Kaspersky Threat Post, "The latest variant, a variant dubbed NitlovePOS, was spotted being dropped on victims who were compromised by a spam operation. Researchers with the firm FireEye were in the middle of tracking a campaign in which spam email emanate from bogus Yahoo! accounts whose subject lines purport to come from individuals interested in internships, job openings and the like. View full story

Researchers have spotted a j.mp shortened URL being shared by fake accounts within Facebook recently targeting users with phishing link. Hackers are sending a spam messages from a phony account stating to be “Facebook recovery” notifying users that their accounts committed abuse and will likely be disabled if they don’t act on given commands. View full story

A "sophisticated" organised crime syndicate used the IRS website to steal tax forms full of personal financial information on 104,000 taxpayers. Until the IRS discovered this latest data leak, its website provided a service called "Get Transcript." It's an easy way to download several years of tax forms for tasks like applying for a mortgage, or college financial aid. An unnamed cybermafia used this app to download forms full of personal information. They posed as...