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Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…

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FSA loses 41 laptops and Blackberries in three years

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

From the U.K. -ministry-of-irony: A regular criticism from the FSA when it comes to issuing bans on financial advisors is that they failed to demonstrate being ‘a fit and proper person’… the regulator might want to discuss these attributes with its workers, who have lost 41 laptops and Blackberries in the last year. All of…

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Ca: Hacker wreaks havoc on Thames board website

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono reports: A computer hacker breached security on the Thames Valley District school board’s website, meaning marks and timetables for 27,000 students – a small city of teenagers – could be accessed. The board has called in police and said the system was shut down “within an hour,” with no chance marks could…

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Open slather for hackers on official databases

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dissent

Brian Robins follows up on the NSW Auditor-General’s report, released yesterday: Computer hackers could gain access to personal information held in government databases as state departments routinely ignore government edicts that tighter security be imposed. The government rarely discloses when its computer security systems have been breached, although in a report yesterday, the NSW Auditor-General,…

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Germany Buying More Stolen Data as Tax Agreement With Switzerland Nears

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dissent

Patrick Donahue reports: German authorities confirmed the purchase of another CD with stolen Swiss bank information as authorities aim to finalize an agreement with Switzerland that may curb tax evasion and bring a windfall in tax revenue. Officials in the western city of Muenster paid 1.5 million euros ($2.1 million) for a CD with data…

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IE: HSE ‘rocked’ by security breach on 1,500 patient records

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Dissent

Roisin Burke reports: Hundreds of patient records were seriously compromised by a major security breach at the HSE, the Sunday Independent has learned. The 1,500 sensitive health records were removed from a Dublin office and emailed to an outside organisation. A private IT contractor, who was being overseen by a HSE staff member, downloaded the…

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