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Europe’s ‘youngest app designer’ expelled from school for hacking its IT system

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dissent

ANI reports: A “computer whizzkid”, who was crowned Europe’s youngest application designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school’s computer system. Aaron Bond, 14, was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying to access confidential information about staff and students and even the vice-principal’s financial information. He managed to access…

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Theft of location info: Revision of law necessary to protect privacy

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dissent

From an editorial in The Korea Times: Subcontractors of two mobile carriers sold location information of 200,000 customers. The theft shows a deep hole in the protection of location information, and is a grave infringement of the privacy of subscribers. Police arrested engineers working for SK Telecom and KT for stealing and selling location information,…

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A horrific privacy breach averted, but why did Anonymous remain silent? (UPDATED)

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dissent

I couldn’t fall asleep last night.  It’s not often that a data breach worries me, but what I read online had concerned me.  According to a hacker calling himself @PabloEscobarSec, he had hacked the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and intended to leak the names of all of the women who had used the service….

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Scottish charity signs ICO undertaking following personal data theft

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Dissent

A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal details of up to 101 individuals were stolen from an employee’s home. The information included peoples’ names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as a limited amount of data relating to…

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Everything’s leaking everywhere: McGill shuts down website that revealed donor records

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dissent

Karen Seidman reports: McGill University has succeeded – for now – in shutting down a website that had exposed confidential and personal information about McGill donors, embarrassing the university and raising questions about the security of private information. The information included how much donors had given in the past and how much they were being…

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Ca: UBC computer with sensitive data recovered

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dissent

Encryption worked, but what was the laptop doing in an unattended vehicle anyway? CBC News reports: The University of B.C. is reviewing its security procedures after the theft of a laptop containing personal information on thousands of students and faculty members. RCMP retrieved the computer last month, 10 days after it was stolen from a…

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