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Nokia Hacked; Significant Number of Records Stolen

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dissent

Nokia’s developer forum has been taken offline after a breach from hacker who obtained database tables with user account information, Nokia said in a statement. During the investigation, Nokia discovered that a database table containing developer forum members’ e-mail addresses has been accessed, by exploiting vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL…

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Medical-marijuana patients are in collective denial

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dissent

David Maass reports: Patient X decides to pursue the simplest path to obtaining medical marijuana. He visits the office of a doctor who specializes in medical-marijuana evaluations. If Patient X can articulate why marijuana would help alleviate his condition, the doctor issues what’s essentially a prescription: a one-page “recommendation.” It costs maybe $30 or $40,…

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France Introduces Data Security Breach Notification Requirement for Electronic Communication Service Providers

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Dissent

On August 24, 2011, France’s new law concerning electronic communications (Ordonnance n° 2011-1012 du 24 août 2011 relative aux communications électroniques, or the “Ordinance”) came into force.  The Ordinance implements the provisions of the revised EU Directive 2002/58/EC (the “e-Privacy Directive”) with respect to the French Data Protection Act of 1978, the French Postal and Electronic Communications…

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Computer breach exposes personal records of Living Healthy Clinic patients

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Dissent

The names and other confidential information of about 3,000 clients of the Living Healthy Clinic were exposed as a result of a computer security breach In July. The clinic, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh College of Nursing provides health services for uninsured Winnebago County residents. The university on Friday said an investigation determined that…

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Ca: Dozens of personal files discovered in west-end dumpster

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Dissent

Dozens of personal files have been discovered in a dumpster outside a west-end restaurant. The files included the personal information of past employees. The dumpster outside the Twisted Kilt has now been emptied out, but Thursday morning it was full of several boxes of documents that included the personal information of former staff members, not…

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(update) ME: Voter database breach came from Millinocket, no information compromised

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Dissent

Eric Russell updates a report on a breach involving the Maine voter database: The Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday that it appears no personal information was compromised during a potential security breach of Maine’s Central Voter Registration database. The apparent breach was the result of malware — or malicious computer software — found on a workstation…

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