Lorenzo's Security Blog

  Image via Wikipedia Milton Hospital and Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester will soon be contacting thousands of patients whose medical records were found at a public dump in late July. Both hospitals have posted information for patients on their websites and are making plans to send letters to all patients who were involved in [...]

Image via Wikipedia One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank card heist. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been charged in [...]

Image via Wikipedia The confidential health information of about 1,600 patients of Texas Children’s Hospital is at risk after a doctor’s laptop containing clinical and demographic information was stolen 2½ months ago. Notifying letters were mailed to parents of the affected children, cardiology patients of a Baylor College of Medicine doctor who practices at Texas [...]

  Image via Wikipedia PORTLAND, Ore. – A laptop belonging to an Oregon National Guard member was stolen this week and the military is contacting service members who might be affected by the theft. According to the Oregon National Guard, the laptop was stolen from a vehicle on Monday. The Guard member had been using [...]

  Image via Wikipedia Because of an incorrect security setting,[which security setting was the student even allowed to access?] an Ocean Lakes High School student was able to access a temporary file [Why was this temporary file not deleted after is was used? ] on a server that contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students [...]