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A Deep Dive into Facebook and Datalogix: What's Actually Getting Shared and How You Can Opt Out

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dissent

Following up on a post from the other day that had a somewhat sensation headline…. Rainey Reitman provides a helpful discussion of how your Facebook data is shared with Datalogix and how you can opt out.  Here’s part of her explanation: In order to assess the impact of Facebook advertisements on shopping in the physical…

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Personal information stolen from 2 nonprofits

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dissent

Christian Cazares reports that burglaries at the American Heart Association and Olive Crest offices in Las Vegas resulted in the theft of personal information stored on laptops.  Read more on KVVU. “

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Medical records ransom: when a "trend" is not a trend

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Dissent

I’ve been meaning to comment on media coverage of  the breach involving The Surgeons of Lake County. While I’m glad my blog entry was able to bring it to the mainstream media’s attention,  I was concerned to see some sites and professionals I respect treat it as either a novel crime or as part of…

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IEEE leaks 100,000 members’ usernames and plain-text passwords (update3)

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Dissent

Seen on Slashdot, Radu Dragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly…

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TX: Police warn of ID theft

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Dissent

John Ingle reports: The Wichita Falls Police Department has sent letters to potential identity theft victims, urging them to check their credit for any recent unknown activity, a department spokesperson said Monday. Joe Snyder, public information officer for WFPD, said financial crimes investigators discovered sheets of address labels with the names and addresses of hundreds…

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CT: Willimantic town employees’ information was on unattended laptop stolen from employee’s office

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Dissent

Alison Shea reports: Willimantic police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a laptop containing town employees’ information that was stolen from Town Hall a week ago. Police said in a release late Sunday that a town employee had left the laptop unattended in his office in Windham Town Hall from 10 a.m. to…

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