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Month: July 2015

NYS Comptroller Audit of Onteora Central School District: Information Technology

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

From the well-there’s-certainly-room-for-improvement dept.: Scope and Objective The objective of our audit was to determine whether the District’s IT assets were adequately safeguarded for the period July 1, 2013 through November 5, 2014. We extended our review of data extracted from the District’s computers and networks through the end of our fieldwork March 3, 2015….

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When Is it Ethical to Publish Stolen Data?

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Helen Lewis has a lengthy, and thought-provoking piece on Nieman Reports that asks, Journalists have been accused of invading privacy, threatening national security, and breaching copyright by publishing such stories, and their sources might lose their jobs, their freedom, or even their lives. So how should reporters and editors decide whether to publish and how much…

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Hong Kong liquidator KPMG claims it took ‘stolen’ Sing Pao records and hardware

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Sometimes a “breach” is not a breach. Eddie Lee reports: Accounting firm KPMG insisted yesterday that it was carrying out its duties as provisional liquidator in collecting computer hardware and electronic records from financially-troubled newspaper Sing Pao Daily News. […] In a statement, KPMG called the allegations surrounding the theft and misappropriation of computer hard drives…

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Potential class action filed in UCLA Health System breach

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

So of course UCLA Health System has been sued over their recently disclosed breach, even though they’ve said they don’t have any evidence that patient information was even accessed. All they know/were able to confirm so far is that the hackers had access to the part of the system that housed patient information. Law360 has…

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Army thought breach notification emails were phishing attempts

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Oops. Jana Winter reports: Last month, in the wake of a series of massive breaches at the federal Office of Personnel Management, the Army issued a bulletin warning that some victims were being hit by hackers a second time, this time with an email phishing campaign asking them to input personal information into a third-party website to receive…

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MN: Guests’ personal information found next to Motel 6 dumpster

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Maybe they should change their advertising to “We’ll leave the light on, and your details outside?” Tyler Berg reports: A guest at a St. Paul Motel 6 said she came across boxes full of personal information laying next to a dumpster. Leyla Dupey said she was walking her dog last week outside the motel when she…

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