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Clayton Valley Charter attorney asks newspaper to return hacked files if obtained

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Dissent

Matthias Gafni has an update to a hack previously noted on this blog: An attorney for Clayton Valley Charter High School has shed new light on the extent of documents hacked from the school’s executive director. In an email sent Tuesday to reporters at this newspaper, attorney Paul Minney wrote that records obtained through a…

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Who hacked Rutgers? University spending up to $3M to stop next cyber attack

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Dissent

Speaking of universities getting hacked, Kelly Heyboer reports that multiple attacks on Rutgers University that have resulted in the university investing seriously in preventing the next attack. Heyboer reports, in part: It is unclear if one cyber attacker was responsible for the series of disruptions that knocked Rutgers’ vast computer network offline four times during the 2014-2015 school…

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More American universities hacked by JM511

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Dissent

Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. The hacker who uses the nick “JM511” has been busy hacking more universities and has dumped some data from the University of California at Los Angeles. In a tweet last night, @JM511 noted that they had been warned twice: You’ve bEEn #warned #2times @UCLA — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) August…

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University of Michigan breaks down August social media hack

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Dissent

Katie Penrod reports on some nice transparency by U. Michigan: After several of the University’s official Facebook pages were hacked last week, administrators spent time reflecting on what went wrong. In light of the hack, University of Michigan Social Media, which runs all of the University’s social media accounts, published a case study analyzing the…

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U. Rhode Island says data breach involves some 3,000 email accounts

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Dissent

John Hill reports: The University of Rhode Island has asked law enforcement officials for help in investigating who hacked into the university’s email accounts records, possibly obtaining the email addresses and passwords to about 3,000 university email accounts, a university spokeswoman said Thursday. Read more on Providence Journal. Related: URI FAQ on incident

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VT Attorney General settled security breaches with Embassy Suites San Francisco Airport and Auburn University

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Dissent

In May, there were follow-ups to two breaches, but I missed them at the time. In the spirit of better late and complete than never, here’s the press release from the Vermont Attorney General’s Office: Earlier today Attorney General William Sorrell filed a settlement in Washington County Superior Court with Embassy Suites South San Francisco, located in…

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