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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Dissent

Nanette Asimov reports: Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students — and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records. A student discovered in February…

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Florida-based credit firm left 111GB of sensitive customer data exposed on AWS server

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Dissent

Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: A Florida-based credit repair company left 111 gigabytes of extremely sensitive customer information and internal company data publicly accessible on the internet possibly for up to two years. The National Credit Federation publicly exposed 47,000 files that included customer names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, credit reports,…

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More than two years after compromise, Combat Brands was still battling malware?

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Dissent

First, there was this: On January 25, 2017, Combat Brands began investigating some unusual activity reported by its credit card processor. Combat Brands immediately began to work with third-party forensic experts to investigate these reports and to identify any signs of compromise on its systems. On February 23, 2017, Combat Brands discovered that it was…

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New NSA leak exposes Red Disk, the Army’s failed intelligence system

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: The contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to a division of the National Security Agency have been left online. The virtual disk image contains over 100 gigabytes of data from an Army intelligence project, codenamed “Red Disk.” The disk image belongs to the US Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, known…

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In: Important documents of Social Welfare Department found lying on street

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Dissent

The Sentinel reports: Tezpur, Nov 27: There has been strong reaction over the recent act of absolute negligence on the part of a Supervisor of the Social Welfare Department in Tezpur in Sonitpur district after 300 important documents related to physically-abled persons were found scattered on the road by an auto-rickshaw driver. According to sources,…

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Confidential files containing graphic descriptions of alleged rapes and victims’ details were found in a bin

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Dissent

Beth Abbit reports: Rape complainants’ confidential details were exposed by a cache of lawyers’ files dumped in a bin and found by a passer-by. Graphic accounts of alleged attacks – and the names of alleged victims and the accused – were among a stash of papers left in a dumpster by a canal in Ancoats….

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