Dylan Tweney reports: An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. For…
Author: Dissent
More on Peoria law enforcement's request to fingerprint people picking up prescriptions
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News had some coverage today of the proposal by Peoria, Arizona police to require that citizens be fingerprinted at pharmacies for certain prescriptions. I had blogged about their proposal last month as being a serious privacy invasion of the majority to prevent abuse of certain medications by the minority. The law…
Iowa players' medical records may have been illegally accessed by employees
Dave Curtis reports: Officials at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics have launched an investigation into whether electronic medical records of the 13 Iowa Hawkeyes football players receiving care there were accessed inappropriately. The players and their families were notified Friday of the investigation, which could take up to two weeks, according to a…
Maine: Thousands of Five County Credit Union Customers Issued New Cards Following Security Breach
MyFOXMaine reports: Several thousand customers of Five County Credit Union are getting new debit and credit cards after security breaches involving an unnamed retailer and processing center. Five County says about 3,000 credit and debit card customers are getting new cards because of the breach, which happened with a third party, not the credit union….
Sensitive Laptops Stolen From Irish Revenue
Hooray – it’s Data Protection Day in EU and here’s a news story that shows how data protection may have prevented what could have been worse problems: A total of ten laptops, thought to contain sensitive information have been stolen from the offices of the Revenue Commissioner last night. Gardaí in Dublin said today they…
NC: Police Investigate Bank Card Breach At Greenville Store
Dave Jordan reports: A number of customers who used their credit and debit card information at one store in the east may want to check their statements after an apparent breach in the system sent credit card information to an unknown location. One of those alleged victims–Kate Ford–says she used her debit card to buy…