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NY: Audit of charter school finds serious IT security deficiencies

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Dissent

As I’ve done before, this post highlights the findings of a NYS Comptroller’s Office audit on information technology and data security. Previous audits posted on this blog have looked at public school districts and universities. This one involves a charter school – Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School in Rochester. The school was established in 2000…

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2013 Was the Worst Year for Data Breaches in Terms of Records Breached

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Dissent

DJ Pangburn reports: The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) yesterday announced its 2014 Data Protection & Breach Readiness Guide, and within it were some statistics that truly boggle the mind. Working on data from the Open Security Foundation and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the OTA estimated that over 740 million online records were exposed in 2013,…

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Court guts much of class action lawsuit against Sony over data breach, but some claims remain

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Dissent

An order handed down yesterday by a federal judge in the Southern District of California in In re: SONY GAMING NETWORKS AND CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION gutted much of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Sony over their 2011 PlayStation hack, but allows some important claims to go forward. As background, Judge Battaglia summarized the litigation in the First…

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Four-fifths of all Irish data breaches come from firms’ employees

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Dissent

Adrian Weckler reports that data breaches are up in Ireland, and too many firms provide staff with insufficient or no training on data protection. Is it any wonder, then, that errors due to human error or employee negligence are so rampant?

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Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Dissent

Darlene Storm reports: When it comes to the atrocious state of HealthCare.gov security, white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, “I don’t understand how we’re still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. It is; there’s no question about that.” He added,…

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KR: Out of the country? You’re out of luck: Expats left out in info leak case

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Dissent

Kim Tae-jong reports: Potentially hundreds of thousands of expatiates have been left out in cold in the largest financial data theft case in Korea’s history. Financial regulators as well as credit card firms and their parent banks have not provided any services for foreign credit card holders to check whether their data was leaked, nor…

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