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When you try to confirm or disconfirm a claimed hack, Thursday edition

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Dissent

As regular readers know, I often try to confirm or disconfirm claimed hacks before just repeating what I see or read elsewhere. And I generally use a notification feature to let me know whether my requests have been delivered and/or read. Here’s an example of why people may be frustrated or just say “screw it”…

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Arts Block website suffers hack attacks

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Dissent

Of course, there are a gadzillion hacks of smaller sites going on every week, but this one caught my eye. Richie Davis reports: When Ed Wierzbowski bought Greenfield’s Arms Block and the former Franklin Savings Institution to bring high-profile musical performances to local audiences, the last thing he imagined having to deal with was Indonesian…

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Reply Brief Filed in United States v. Auernheimer

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Dissent

Orin Kerr writes: Readers who are following the Weev case, aka United States v. Auernheimer, the Third Circuit appeal I am litigating pro bono, might be interested to know that we filed our reply brief today. You can read the reply brief here.

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Investigative report by Brian Krebs leads to more questions for Experian from Senator Rockfeller

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Dissent

At least one member of Congress is paying attention. Senator Jay Rockefeller has written to Experian, requesting more details on security issues first reported by Brian Krebs. Brian has more on the latest developments here. I suspect that Senator Rockefeller is not aware of the FTC complaint I filed about Experian data breaches last year….

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Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data publishes reports on two investigation into data security at the Hong Kong Police Department

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Dissent

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has released two reports on investigations involving possible violations of the Data Protection Ordinance. Both reports involve the Hong Kong Police Department. The first investigation involved the leakage of an HKPD document containing personally identifiable information via Foxy (a file-sharing program). Two instances…

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How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Dissent

Dana Liebelson reports: With Healthcare.gov plagued by technical difficulties, the Obama administration is bringing in heavyweight coders and private companies like Verizon to fix the federal health exchange, pronto. But web security experts say the Obamacare tech team should add another pressing cyber issue to its to-do list: eliminating a security flaw that could make sensitive user information, including Social Security…

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