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On the wall of shame, SCDOR’s breach should rank embarrassingly high

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dissent

Embarrassing reminders about the South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) breach continue.  The Associated Press reports on testimony in yesterday’s hearing by the state’s House oversight panel: Revenue has been criticized for not using the state information technology division’s computer monitoring services — which are offered but not required — before the hacking. While the…

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Global Payments revises total breach cost estimates upwards, but wait until you see what *didn’t* cost them

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Dissent

In September, I posted Global Payments’ statement from their quarterly filing that dealt with the costs of a breach disclosed in March 2012.  BankInfoSecurity.com has just reported on their most recent filing. Whereas last year,  Global Payments estimated the cost of the breach at about $84 million,  their current 10-Q filing puts the cost of the…

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Former IT security manager for SCDOR testifies about the lack of security controls prior to its breach

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Dissent

Jeffrey Collins of Associated Press reports: The Department of Revenue was more concerned with keeping employees from accessing news, sports and social media websites on their work computers than protecting taxpayer data like Social Security numbers, a former computer security chief at the agency said Thursday. Read more on Aiken Standard. Tim Smith of Greenville…

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AU: Hackers’ extortion bid on schools

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Dissent

I don’t recall ever seeing an media report on an extortion/ransom attempt on a school, but here’s a case out of Australia, where they also seem to have more media reports of ransomware in the healthcare and small business sectors than we do. As reported by the Herald Sun: Schools have emerged as a new…

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Now-former student arrested in the University of Nebraska hack

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Dissent

Leslie Reed reports an arrest in a hacking incident that affected the University of Nebraska and state college system; A former computer science and math major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln now faces a federal computer hacking charge from last spring’s breach of a key computer system serving both NU and the state college system….

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A preview of SCDOR’s breach notification letter to those affected

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Dissent

South Carolina submitted a copy of the letter it will be sending out to the California Attorney General’s Office. You can read it here (pdf).

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