Tag: VIRGINIA

As we inch closer to 2012, and as fatalists prepare themselves for the Mayan-predicted end of the world, everyone will, as they have for centuries, start looking for signs of the apocalypse. Some Virginian lawmakers, however, say they may have already found one of these signs: microchips. According to The Washington Post, the Virginian House of Delegates is set to vote on a bill that would ...

On April 30th, an unidentified individual, or group, hacked into the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program's Web site, WikiLeaks first reported Sunday. A full week after the hack occurred, the perpetrator is still holding hostage the private data of over 8 million Virginia patients. The party responsible for this security breach didn't hack into the prescription-drug-abuse-tracking site for ...

Virginia has become the first state in the nation to mandate some form of Internet safety courses for public school children. Details on the program are scant at the moment, but the courses came out of concern for teens and pre-teens who may be the target of sexual predators. As part of presentation in a Richmond, Virginia high school, the state's assistant attorney general, Gene Fishel, showed ...