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UMaine professor whose laptop was stolen violated university’s data policy

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Dissent

Noel K. Gallagher provides additional details on a U. of Maine breach reported earlier this week: A University of Maine physics professor who compromised the personal information of more than 600 current and former students when his laptop was stolen violated a university policy that prohibits professors and other employees from having students’ Social Security…

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UMaine probing data breach affecting more than 900

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Dissent

Dawn Gagnon reports: A data breach discovered last week has exposed the personal information of more than 900 current and former University of Maine students, the university announced Wednesday. UMaine spokeswoman Margaret Nagle said the information was on a laptop computer and the media card used by a faculty member who discovered the laptop was…

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Now about those background checks…?

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Dissent

So your organization contracts with a firm that conducts background checks on your hires, and you require your contractors and subcontractors to conduct background checks on their employees. You’ve got your bases covered, right? What could possibly go wrong?

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Update: U. of Sydney hack was by Abdilo; Dozens of others attacked, too

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Dissent

Earlier today, I posted a breach involving the University of Sydney. As an update, DataBreaches.net can now report that the breach was the work of Abdilo, who has made a point of going after universities (as other posts on this site have demonstrated).  Abdilo had dropped hints about an Orsee 0day previously. Today, however, he made it clear that this…

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AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Dissent

Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…

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PA: South Western school officials investigate security breach

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Dissent

Updating the breach report involving South Western High School in Pennsylvania: The Evening Sun now reports that the school board met last night in closed session to discuss the breach, which appears to have involved two high school students. All the superintendent would say is that they were probably just trying to get attention. If…

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