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Latest Report On Data Breaches: More Outsider Attacks, Many Of Them State-Sponsored

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Dissent

Nice write-up  by Mike Masnick on Verizon’s 2013 DBIR, here.  Now if I could just find time to read the whole report for myself…

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Vermont Attorney General Sorrell Requires Security Upgrades And Assesses Penalty For Security Breach Violations

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Dissent

Attorney General William Sorrell has reached a settlement with Natural Provisions, a grocery store in Williston, Vermont in which Natural Provisions agreed to spend $15,000 to significantly upgrade its computer security system to exceed minimum legal protections, and to pay $15,000 to the State, in addition to other injunctive relief. The settlement resolves allegations that Natural Provisions…

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Hacking involved in majority of confirmed breaches – 2013 DBIR

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Dissent

In its 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon said that it had analysed more than 47,000 reported security incidents last year and found 621 “confirmed data disclosures” where at least 44 million records had been “compromised”. More than half of the 621 data disclosures involved hacking, it said. “52% of breaches affecting all organisations involved…

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UK: Leaked data revelations leaves Black Country councils red-faced

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Dissent

Oh the things that we learn from freedom of information requests: Personal information including medical details, a bank statement and the outcome of a disciplinary hearing are among documents accidentally leaked to members of the public in the past year, it has emerged. In Wolverhampton, a list of vulnerable people in placements was left in…

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Failure to encrypt results in EPIC breach

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Dissent

Sometime in the evening of July 16 or the early morning hours of July 17, burglars managed to steal five laptop computers from the offices of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) in San Francisco.  The theft was discovered on the 17th and reported to the police, but as of September 6, the laptops – one…

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UK: ICO to scrutinize firms’ use of rogue private detectives

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Dissent

Cynthia O’Murchu and Helen Warrell report: The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into whether companies and individuals broke the law by using private investigators convicted of illegally obtaining private data. Last week the ICO was given 20 files of material by the Serious Organised Crime Agency relating to four private investigators found guilty of “blagging”…

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