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(follow-up) Sydney Uni ‘breached student privacy’

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Dissent

An investigation has found the University of Sydney failed in its obligations by not securing students’ private details on its website. A section of the university’s website was shut down in January after it was found sensitive information could be obtained by entering a student’s identification number. No password was required to access the name…

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(update) Laptops stolen from a contractor’s van had a slew of sensitive student data

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Dissent

Remember the Illinois State Board of Education laptops stolen from a Harrisburg Project van recently?  I was reading more about the incident and noticed that there was even more sensitive data on the laptops than originally indicated in media coverage: The staff data stored on the computers included name, demographics, Social Security number, teacher certification…

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State extends contract with company that lost West Aurora, Kaneland schools information

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Dissent

Do training using real data?  Neither necessary nor smart…. and yet their contract is extended? Matt Brennan reports: West Aurora and Kaneland were the only school districts in the Fox Valley impacted when two laptop computers were recently stolen that contained the personal information of more than 10,000 students and staff from 42 school districts…

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Man infects college PCs to steal huge database

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students’ accounts. Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court there to computer hacking conspiracy…

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AU: UQ internet security not breached

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dissent

Part of a press release from the University of Queensland: Recent claims in the media that hackers had obtained passwords for email addresses at The University of Queensland (UQ) are inaccurate. UQ’s Director of Information Technology Services, Rob Moffatt, confirmed there had not been any network security breaches at the University and none of the…

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Part of LulzSec data dump is from Australian entities

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Dissent

In an earlier blog entry tonight, I noted that 12,000 of 62,000 email addresses and passwords posted by LulzSec today came from WriterSpace.com. It appears that the dump also contained a number of people in Australia.  ABC News in Australia reports: The group, which took down the CIA website yesterday, has leaked 62,000 worldwide email…

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