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AU: Bad Taste: News Ltd suffers another online breach

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dissent

Ben Grubb reports: News Limited has suffered another security breach which has resulted in members receiving spam emails and potentially having their passwords exposed. Taste.com.au, a product of News Limited’s News Magazines, last Friday emailed members to inform them of the breach which “potentially exposed” information about its members via “illegal and unauthorised access to…

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500,000 e-mail addresses and passwords acquired: Adidas websites go offline after security breach (UPDATED)

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dissent

Last night, a regular reader of this blog contacted me about the Adidas breach.  I told him, and repeat now, that it’s not clear whether any personal information was involved, which is why I held off on posting anything about.  As of this morning, the company doesn’t think personal data has been accessed or acquired,…

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NYU-Poly Will Open Cyber Security Awareness Week Events

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Lee J

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — For the first time, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will open the doors to its Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) to all students interested in digital privacy and security – not just the so-called "cyber ninjas" who qualified as national finalists in feats of…

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Ca: Nearly 2,700 tax files downloaded on missing laptop

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dissent

I’m no longer surprised when we first learn about breaches that happened years ago. Case in point: a 2006 breach in Canada is now in the media after the Canadian Press uncovered it in an Access to Information request: The confidential tax files of almost 2,700 Canadians are missing after a Canada Revenue Agency worker…

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Abandoned Jackson Hewitt tax office’s returns put customers at risk

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dissent

Kathleen Pender reports: A Bay Area woman named Kara got an upsetting call the morning of Oct. 22. The caller said she had found Kara’s 2007 tax return lying in a pile with hundreds of others on the ground in front of an abandoned Jackson Hewitt tax preparation office at 1734 Divisadero St. in San…

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MN: Woman Charged With Stealing $6K From Credit Cards of Apple Valley Store Customers

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Dissent

Betsy Sundquist reports: A Minneapolis woman has been charged with credit-card fraud after authorities say she made more than $6,000 in fraudulent transactions on 98 customers’ credit cards within two weeks while working at an Apple Valley store. The fraudulent transactions reportedly occurred between between May 25 and June 10. Read more on AppleValleyPatch. The…

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