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NY: Port Jefferson parents get wrong exam scores

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Dissent

Schools re-opened on Long Island right after Labor Day, and look, we already have a privacy breach. Elana Glowatz reports: Port Jefferson school district Superintendent Ken Bossert assured the community on Tuesday that an error that sent state test scores to the wrong households was a one-time occurrence. Many middle school parents visited the district…

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A file in the wrong place led to discovery of CSU-East Bay’s breach

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Dissent

Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…

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CSU- East Bay discloses data breach that went undiscovered for one year

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Dissent

Dennis Culver reports: California State University officials said today the university’s East Bay information security team has discovered a breach in a web server used to store personal employee information. Officials said the security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year. The university learned through the subsequent investigation…

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Update: CV officials: Specialist not 100 percent certain on hacker access to district files

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Dissent

An update to this breach: Cumberland Valley School District Friday continued to warn parents about a hacking incident after a forensic specialist concluded in a report that there is not a 100 percent guarantee that no confidential information was accessed. The information Friday stems from an incident on Aug. 21 in which district administration was…

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Dissent

Jonathan Mayer writes: I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance. In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues. Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses. If…

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NY: Florida School District reports security breach after students share class schedules online

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Dissent

News12 reports: The Florida School District reported a student security breach Wednesday after some students posted copies of their official class schedules online. When students at the S.S. Seward Institute received their schedules over the weekend, school officials say some of them shared the schedules online. In addition to classes, the paperwork also had student…

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