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Factory settings FAIL: Data easily recovered from eBayed smartphones, disks

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Data recovery experts have found a raft personal information from used hard drives and mobile phones purchased from Amazon, eBay and Gazelle in the UK, US and Germany. The research, by Blancco Technology Group and Kroll Ontrack, once again shows that failure to erase data from discarded devices continues to be a…

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Danish Bank Leaves Server in Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Information in JavaScript Comments

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch IT security expert Sijmen Ruwhof has found a pretty big blunder on the part of Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest bank, which exposed sensitive user session information in the form of an encoded data dump, in their banking portal’s JavaScript files. Mr. Ruwhof started to research Danish banking policies out of curiosity,…

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FTSE heads for weekly rise but Experian drops on US data breach

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Dissent

It’s always interesting to see if a company’s stock prices take any hit from a breach. Nick Fletcher reports on The Guardian: Leading shares are moving higher ahead of the US jobs data, with banks boosted by news of a deadline being set for consumers to claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance. But Experian has dropped more…

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The complaint to FTC about Experian that accomplished… what?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my frustration about this latest incident, @emptywheel suggested I post the complaint I filed with the FTC about Experian in 2012. After some thought, I’ve decided…

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Reports slam OCR’s poor oversight of HIPAA covered entities, breach followup efforts

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

If you follow HHS’s public breach tool and investigations closely, two reports from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) finding lax oversight and insufficient follow-up will come as no surprise. Susan Hall of FierceHealthIT has a good recap: The former report was based on reviews of a statistical sample of privacy cases investigated by OCR between September…

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State auditor to examine cybersecurity in Missouri schools

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

Excellent. NewsOK reports: State Auditor Nicole Galloway on Wednesday announced the launch of a cybersecurity audit initiative in Missouri schools. The initiative will focus on identifying practices that improve the security of information that schools have on students and their families. Read more on NewsOK.

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