Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions
Database, Demand Ransom

Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents.

Wikileaks reports that the Web site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was defaced last week with a message claiming that the database of prescriptions had been bundled into an encrypted, password-protected file.

Wikileaks has published a copy of the ransom note left in place of the PMP home page, a message that claims the state of Virginia would need to pay the demand in order to gain access to a password needed to unlock those records:

"I have your [expletive] In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :(For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password."

Message to the guy next to me on the plane: Please don't get one of these, I like reading your email.

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Personal Computer Information Can Be Easily Hacked
While in Flight

Recently Netragard, LLC, The Specialist in Anti-Hacking, found that airline passangers' personal computer information can be easily hacked while in flight. The wireless inflight airline internet access service, GoGo Inflight Internet ("GoGo"), which enables travelers to access the internet while in flight does not encrypt communications between users (passengers )and the Wireless Access Points on the aircraft.

As a result of this lack of encryption it is easy to intercept and record all data sent and received by passengers. This poses significant risk to passengers and their respective businesses as sensitive information is sent over the air without encryption. This information can include, emails, email attachments, email content, usernames and passwords,credit card information, social security numbers, methods for accessing business networks, trade secrets, etc. This information can be intercepted and recorded by anyone on the aircraft with a WiFi capable laptop/device.

Grandmother caught in 'gray area' of child porn law

Christopher Moore, a special prosecutor in the York County District Attorney's Office, is after "perverts, not parents."

Moore was commenting on the "gray area" between the typical family picture of the 2-year-old getting a bath in the kitchen sink and a picture a pedophile may enjoy.

It can be the same picture, Moore said.

But, Moore added, that is not a reason for parents and grandparents to avoid taking those pictures.

"They're keepsakes," he said. "They remind us of the way they were when they were young before they became a pain in the ass.

"It's not what the (child protection) law was designed for. Your rights are not restricted in any form by the law."

The vagueness of that "gray area" became apparent in May 2005 when police handcuffed a Spring Grove grandmother in a West Manchester Township parking lot on suspicion of child pornography.

Donna Dull, then 59, had dropped off a roll of 35 mm film at Wal-Mart for development. Among the photos, when they were printed, were some of Dull's naked 3-year-old grandaughter in a number of poses.

A Wal-Mart employee contacted West Manchester Township Police and turned the photos over to them. Officers arrested Dull after she returned to the store to pick up her pictures.

Please, stop texting while driving!