A screenshot of the letter sent to New Hampshire’s Attorney General (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The breach of private information belonging to more than 100,000 Massachusetts residents could test the state’s new data privacy law, according to a report by Threat Post . New York City bus tour company CitySights NY was hit with a SQL injection attack on its servers, which contained the financial information of 1,850 Massachusetts residents was stolen. Though the breach occurred in September, it was not detected until October by a Twin America Web programmer.

A screenshot of the letter sent to New Hampshire’s Attorney General (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — New York City bus tour company CitySights NY ( www.citysightsny.com ) announced earlier this month that a SQL injection attack on its web server compromised about 110,000 credit card numbers.  Although the breach happened on September 26, it was discovered a month later on October 25 when a web programmer noticed the unauthorized script.  The breach became public on December 9 when a letter sent to New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney from CitySight’s parent company, Twin America, was posted online. Around 300 New Hampshire residents were among those affected by the attack. In the letter, Twin America suggests the Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines for storing card data were not being met

The “services” section of the Toronto Craigslist page, now without the “erotic” link According to a report published over the weekend by the Globe and Mail , the governments of Canada and Ontario are both reporting that online classifieds giant Craigslist appears to have pulled prostitution ads from its Canadian websites, after months of government requests.

Zymic, an American Web-hosting service, on Thursday removed a website published in recent days which listed the names, photos, addresses, identity numbers and positions of hundreds of IDF soldiers and commanders accused by the site’s anonymous author of being “Israeli war criminals” during Operation Cast Lead. Although a number of soldiers who were listed said on Thursday that they were proud to be on the site, its appearance raised new questions about holes in security surrounding sensitive IDF information. RELATED: Website revealing Cast Lead ‘war criminals’ removed IDF investigates 400 complaints over Cast Lead conduct Amnesty calls on ICC to act on Cast Lead ‘war crimes’ Ben-Ari asks UN to probe US for war crimes The list even included personal information on outgoing IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen

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Despite the charges laid, data from ZeuS Tracker shows that the Zeus trojan is still “at large” with 94 active domains, and 106 Zeus configs online as of Wednesday. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Federal and state authorities charged 37 individuals involved in an international cyber-crime ring that, according to evidence unveiled in a Manhattan federal courtroom, used the Zeus trojan to gain personal information, and to steal more than $3 million from US bank accounts

Despite the charges laid, data from ZeuS Tracker shows that the Zeus trojan is still “at large” with 94 active domains, and 106 Zeus configs online as of Wednesday.

The US government’s attempt to censor internet content with the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act that was recently introduced into the US Senate is examined by Canadian Professor Michael Geist in his recent column in The Toronto Star. The bill, also known as COICA, was described by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as flawed. The EFF said the bill if enacted “would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet one domain at a time – by requiring domain registrars/registries, ISPs, DNS providers, and others to block Internet users from reaching certain websites.

The legislation introduced on Monday this week that aims to curb online piracy and the sale of counterfeit goods through deleting domain names has been slammed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The legislation, a short bill, called the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” (COICA) is described as flawed by the EFF