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The Department of Health and Human Services has levied the first monetary fine for a HIPAA violation. Cignet Health Center was fined a record $4.3 million for failing to provide access to medical records as requests. The requests from 41 …

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The Internet Crime Complaint Center has released their 2010 crime report. The IC3 averaged over 25 thousand complaints per month to give them their highest yearly total ever at 303,809 complaints. A significant number of complaints were related to non-delivery …

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Maryland is trying to pull a Bozeman. What’s that? Bozeman briefly tried to compel job applicants to submit their social media credentials for employment. According the the ACLU of Maryland, the State of Maryland now has a similar requirement

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Most digital cameras and cell phones embed metadata in the digital photos that they capture. Some embed the make and model of the camera. Others embed camera settings, GPS data, and other embed information that is unique to the specific …

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The release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 is out. Microsoft has stressed the new performance and security features of the redesigned browser.

The newly redesigned interface squeezes the top user interface into a single row including the URL field and …

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The SourceForge blog has indicated that their servers are under attack. The attackers were able successfully able to exploit a vulnerability of several servers. The CVS servers have been compromised. SourceForge says they are working to identify the exploits …

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Fake online pharmacies and malware depots popup all over the place. The people that build these sites are in somewhat of a predicament. They need to lay low because they’re using hacked hosting, but at the same time they need …

Hacked Websites For Sale

What do the US Army CECOM, State of Utah, and State of Michigan websites all have in common? They’re all listed for sale on a website offering access to hacked websites. We didn’t include any links to the hacked sites …