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Author: Dissent

UNC security breach less severe than feared

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

As an update to a previously reported breach: A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared. UNC School of Medicine officials said last week that a security breach had left data related to as many as 236,000 women enrolled…

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Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

Frederik Joelving reports: To a busy emergency physician, a split lip or a case of poisoning is just one of those things they deal with. But to a computer mining the patient’s medical history, it could be the last diagnosis needed to decipher a pattern of domestic violence. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard…

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700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand.  Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total.  The company has not revealed how many…

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IT security breaches In Canada more than triples in 2009

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

From a TELUS press release: A new study from TELUS in partnership with Rotman School of Management released today reveals a major increase in annual losses related to Information Technology (IT) security breaches. According to the study which surveyed more than 600 IT security professionals across the country: IT security breaches cost the average Canadian…

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Florida man sentenced for ID theft

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

Richard L. Marzullo, 56, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Marzullo admitted that he purchased…

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Two Romanians to face phishing charges in US

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Dissent

Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam. The two men, Petru Belbita, 25, and Cornel Tonita, 28, are accused of setting up fake phishing sites designed to steal user names and passwords…

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