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Users’ passwords exposed by Splunk

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dissent

Oops — I meant to post this a few days ago, but just discovered it still sitting in the drafts folder… Gavin Clarke reports: Splunk, a kind of Google for business technology that boasts it can help re-enforce your security, has exposed the accounts of major customers to hackers following a web site slip up….

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Montana Tech Takes Precautionary Measures Following Email Release Of Personal Data

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Dissent

From their announcement: Montana Tech of the University of Montana administrators are notifying students and alumni whose personal information was released in an e-mail message sent out to the Montana Tech campus community late last week. On April 22, 2010, an email message containing sensitive personal information such as name, social security number, address, phone…

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Knesset online security lapse exposes secret Mossad data

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Dissent

Amos Harel and Jonathan Lis report: The Knesset Web site committed a major security lapse several weeks ago by publicizing the names of high-level Mossad and Shin Bet officials whose identities are kept secret by law. Read more on Haaretz.com. It seems that this isn’t the first time the Knesset web site has exposed sensitive…

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13,700 Nihon U. staffers have data leaked online

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Dissent

Personal data on at least 13,700 Nihon University personnel has been leaked on the Internet, according to the university. The leak occurred when a school official brought the data home with him on his personal computer, on which the Winny file-sharing software had been installed. According to the school’s public relations office, the leaked data…

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NY: Patient files found dumped in Monticello

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Dissent

Leonard Sparks reports: Officials have seized hundreds, perhaps thousands, of files containing Social Security numbers and other private patient information found dumped outside the shuttered office of DRC Physical Therapy Plus. The manila folders, dating back to at least 1998, include information sheets showing the names, addresses and birth dates of patients and, in some…

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Professor emails private student records by accident

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Dissent

Mike LaCount reports: On April 8, students in the UW-Milwaukee Geography department received an e-mail containing personal information of former UWM students, but the message was removed before most of the recipients opened it. Judith Kenny, associate professor and undergraduate program chair for the department of geography, sent an e-mail to 97 students in the…

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