Hacker group Rex Mundi has published thousands of loan-applicant details it siphoned off from US payday loan outfit AmeriCash Advance. The move follows AmeriCash Advance’s refusal to sump up $15,000 in what Rex Mundi describes as an idiot tax for maintaining insecure systems and what AmeriCash Advance characterises as an extortionate demand. Rex Mundi said Read more

Julian Assange™ has spent his third night in the Ecuadorian embassy in London as he continued to await the outcome of his plea for political asylum from the South American country. In the meantime, the WikiLeaker-in-chief has been grumbling to a radio station that his homeland of Australia had ditched him in his hour of Read more

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has issued a public statement of support after a senior Congressional committee unanimously approved a resolution condemning moves to bring the internet under new management. Government representatives should “continue working to implement the position of the United States on Internet governance that clearly articulates the consistent and unequivocal policy of the Read more

It’s a big day for extra-terrestrial water: not only are there hints of water on the moon, but now Carnegie says that the mantle of Mars might have water concentrations similar to those found on Earth. Specifically, the researchers say that rocks in Mars’ mantle could have concentrations of water between 70 and 300 parts Read more

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has been fined £225,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for leaving patient and staff files in an abandoned hospital. The Belfast Trust became the latest NHS body to feel the wrath of the ICO after it left 100,000 patient records and 15,000 staff records in boxes, cabinets, on the Read more

Hackers have latched onto a vulnerability in Internet Explorer patched by Microsoft last week as a useful way to spread malware. The vulnerability is CVE-2012-1875 – which was patched in MS12-037 as part of the June edition of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – and it is being exploited in the wild. Attacks are typically delivered by Read more

Google has denied that it tried to cover up certain aspects of its Street View data slurp as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office reopens its investigation into the incident. The ICO recently cracked open its cold case files on the Street View cars’ sniffing of data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks. This was a result of Read more

Apple have patented the idea of using data clones to hide from surveillance: data clones that will browse the internet under your name but will look at basket-weaving sites instead of porn. In one of the stranger Apple patents that we’ve seen in recent months, author Stephen R Carter details a way of stopping eavesdroppers Read more

Consumer Affairs Victoria has claimed Apple’s App Store houses “counterfeit or ‘cloned’ apps” that “look like real apps but don’t have the same kind of security as those made by established software programmers” and “can expose personal data to malware or predatory, virus-like software which can be used to steal personal information.” The agency makes Read more

RBS and Natwest have failed to register inbound payments for up to three days, customers have reported, leaving people unable to pay for bills, travel and even food. The banks – both owned by RBS Group – have confirmed that technical glitches have left bank accounts displaying the wrong balances and certain services unavailable. There Read more