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NY: Audit of Frontier Central School District finds inadequate security and policies for mobile devices

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Dissent

An audit of Frontier Central School District by the Office of the New York State Comptroller was released yesterday. The audit covered the period July 1, 2010 — August 22, 2013 and included audit of mobile device use and security. As background: there are six schools in operation within the District, with approximately 5,100 students and 1,000 employees.  The…

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Mississippi woman pleads guilty in stolen identity fraud case

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Dissent

Jackson, Miss – Marietta Harris, 38, of Jackson, pled guilty on March 5, 2014 to conspiring to defraud the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. She will be sentenced on May 15, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate and faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $250,000…

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Hackers breach a Johns Hopkins University server and upload student information when uni doesn’t respond to extortion demands

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Dissent

Scott Dance reports: Names and contact information of as many as 1,300 current and former Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students were posted online Thursday, stolen by someone claiming to be part of the hacker group known as Anonymous. The server that was breached did not contain Social Security or credit card numbers, or any…

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Breach affecting University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees bigger than initially reported

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Dissent

Adam Brandolph reports that a breach involving University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) employees is bigger than initially reported: As many as 322 UPMC employees — 300 more than initially reported — have been affected by a data breach and identity theft scheme, the hospital system said on Thursday. Authorities said the breach allowed someone…

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NZ: Wintec shuts web site after security breach

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Dissent

Libby Wilson reports: She wanted to apply for a parking permit – instead Wintec student Bronwyn Fleet got the details of people who already had. The second-year student visited the application site in the student portal in January and was astounded when a list including names, contact numbers and car registration numbers appeared on the…

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North Dakota University System server breach; data access not evident but possible (updated)

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Dissent

Update of March 27: North Dakota University System official: hackers did not gain access to files with personal information. Original story: North Dakota University System issued the following statement today: Core Technology Services, the information technology arm of the North Dakota University System, has discovered and shut down suspicious access to one of the university…

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