Lorenzo's Security Blog

An electronic storage device stolen from an employee’s car in Sacramento last month contained health information from 15,500 patients, including about 800 in the Fresno area, Kaiser Permanente Northern California said Tuesday. Image via Wikipedia   There is no evidence the information has been used inappropriately, a Kaiser official said. The risk for fraud and [...]

RockYou, the popular provider of third-party apps for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking services, is being hit with a proposed class-action accusing the company of having such poor data security that at least one hacker got away with 32 million e-mails and their passwords. The suit accuses the maker of apps like “Slideshow” for MySpace [...]

Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last Image via Wikipedia month.  [Donald: Okay, so where does Technology have anything to do [...]

Senator ‘Astonished” That Breach Lasted So Long…. The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee told the chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems that she was “astonished” a breach the company’s information system lasted for nearly 1½ years without being detected. At a panel hearing Monday on protecting industry against growing [...]

A serial hacker has been charged with carrying out the largest theft of credit card identities ever recorded in the U.S., in a sophisticated scam in which he and accomplices allegedly stole at least 130m accounts from big retail companies. Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, who once worked with the US secret service, is accused [...]