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Missouri State Senator Wants Docs to Invade Patients' Privacy

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

Meet Tom Dempsey, a threat to the privacy of women in Missouri. State Senator Dempsey recently introduced a bill, SB 792, that would have doctors invade their patients’ privacy and require doctors to try to give patients information that supports his religious agenda even if the patients do not want it. Emphasis added by me…

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20 Banking Breaches So Far in 2010

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

Linda McGlasson of bankinfosecurity.com reports: There have been 171 reported data breaches so far in 2010, and 20 of these involve financial services companies. This means that in less than one quarter of the year, we already have seen nearly one-third of the 62 banking-related breaches reported in all of 2009. The rest of the…

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Dumped documents lead to internal investigation

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

Jennifer Emert reports from Georgia: Albany Police have launched an internal investigation after sensitive city documents were found near an alley garbage can. APD Chief John Proctor says that violates the department’s policy to shred or burn documents containing sensitive information. It may even be in violation of state law that requires businesses to shred…

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Town recovers $378,470 stolen by hackers (updated)

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

Michael Valkys reports: Town of Poughkeepsie officials Thursday night announced the town has recovered more than $378,000 in town funds alleged to have been stolen by cyber thieves. Supervisor Patricia Myers announced the recovery at a special Town Board meeting at Town Hall. She read a brief statement after the board’s approximately one-hour executive session….

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Vodafone Spain admits 3,000 smartphones shipped with Mariposa

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Vodafone Spain has accepted that 3,000 customers were potentially exposed to malware after Mariposa botnet agents strayed onto the HTC Magic smartphone. The admission to Spanish media on Thursday follows a meeting between the mobile phone giant’s Iberian arm and representatives from Panda Security. The infection of microSD cards for the HTC…

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(update) Virus that hit Mary’s Pizza “so new it was not even in virus database”

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

David Bolling provides more information on a breach reported here previously: The Plaza location of Mary’s Pizza Shack has been identified as the target of Internet hackers who penetrated the restaurant’s computer system with a “logger” virus that captured credit card numbers at the transaction terminal. The presence of a virus was discovered by a…

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