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University of Essex data breach being taken ‘very seriously’

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dissent

BBC reports: A data breach affecting more than 400 students is being treated “very seriously”, the University of Essex said. Law firm Hayes Connor, which is representing some students, said an email from an external partner of the college included personal information. A spreadsheet containing student IDs, dates of birth and contact details was attached…

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A Romanian, involved in the Russian cyber attacks of the last days on some Romanian sites has been arrested by UK police

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dissent

Machine Translation by Google: The announcement was made by the Minister of Interior, Lucian Bode:“After these attacks, the specialists of the Ministry of Interior, the Police and other structures carried out activities through the legal competence to counter the attacks, to protect the sites and to identify those responsible .Thus, a suspected person, a Romanian citizen, resident…

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Alleged docket dumping probed (South African Police Service)

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Dissent

Natasha Bezuidenhout reports: Police are investigating allegations which claim police files, dockets and rape kits from Steenberg Police Station were found discarded at a dumping site. Ward 68 councillor Marita Petersen claimed she found remnants of police dockets and rape kits dumped in Steenberg since the beginning of April. Read more at News24

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This Israeli Helped One of the World’s Biggest Jewish Organizations – Now He’s in Trouble

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Dissent

Ran Bar-Zik reports what sounds like a situation where a cybersecurity student who engaged in responsible disclosure after finding a leak at the scholarship application website of the American Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”) felt pressured and anxious by the Joint trying to get him to sign a statement afterwards. And so far, he hasn’t…

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Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: ….. the third month of war finds Russia, not the United States, struggling under an unprecedented hacking wave that entwines government activity, political voluntarism and criminal action. Digital assailants have plundered the country’s personal financial data, defaced websites and handed decades of government emails to anti-secrecy activists abroad. One recent survey showed…

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COVID-19 patient sues Health P.E.I. for privacy breach at hospital

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Higgins reports: A man who says he was the first person on Prince Edward Island to be hospitalized for COVID-19 is suing Health P.E.I. for breach of privacy. According to a civil suit filed in P.E.I. Supreme Court, information about the man’s medical condition, including the fact that he is HIV-positive, was leaked by…

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