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Romania: Haven for hackers turned cyber sleuths

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

Vlad Odobescu reports: Razvan Cernaianu once surfed the Internet anonymously and easily broke into the computer systems for NASA, the Pentagon and Oracle. Then he became part of a legion of hackers that turned Romania into a center of international cyber fraud investigators. Now, the 25-year-old is co-founder of Cyber Smart Defense, a security firm…

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HospitalGown Database Leak: Enterprise Apps Found Leaking Data On Back End Servers

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

AJ Dellinger reports: Mobile apps for enterprise services that manage data are leaving massive troves of user information exposed and unprotected on backend servers, according to a group of security researchers. Experts at Appthority, a mobile security firm, published a report that showed 43 terabytes of data from enterprise apps left exposed. The information was…

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Anthem, AmEx, PayPal, Must Face ID Theft Suit in Calif.

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

Jimmy H. Koo reports: Health insurance, financial services, and payment card companies failed to keep a California attorney’s identify theft lawsuit in federal court and must face the allegations back in state court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held May 31 ( Gallo v. Unknown No. of Identity Thieves ,…

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INFORMATION SECURITY: FDIC Needs to Improve Controls over Financial Systems and Information

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Dissent

From: INFORMATION SECURITY: FDIC Needs to Improve Controls over Financial Systems and Information GAO-17-436: Published: May 31, 2017. Publicly Released: May 31, 2017. What GAO Found The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) implemented numerous information security controls intended to protect its key financial systems. However, further actions are needed to address weaknesses in access controls—including boundary…

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Another day, another litigation threat

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Dissent

I am really out of patience for people threatening me or my site. Look at this one: I need to you get rid of an article off of your website: The link is: https://www.databreaches.net/cytta-reports-online-hacking-of-their-nevada-secretary-of-state-officer-and-director-data/ Steffan Dalsgaard is not guilty of these allegations, no one except your website has accused him of hacking the state of Nevada. Nevada has…

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HHS OIG: Virginia failed to secure Medicaid data

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Dissent

Jessica Kim Cohen reports that a Virginia audit has highlighted security issues with Medicaid data: During its audit, OIG found Virginia’s Medicaid data and systems did not meet federal standards. MMIS had “numerous significant system vulnerabilities,” despite having a security program in place, according to OIG. These vulnerabilities related to Virginia’s control over the data…

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