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CFAA overreach: FBI raids home of security researcher

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Dissent

From the stop-me-if-you’ve-heard-this-one-before dept: Over on Daily Dot this morning, I reported that the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of researcher Justin Shafer.  Shafer’s name will be familiar to regular readers of DataBreaches.net because he exposed a long-standing security vulnerability in Dentrix software and challenged Henry Schein’s claims that their product provided “encryption.”  Our combined efforts resulted in…

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Heads Up Internet: Time to Kill Another Dangerous CFAA Bill

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Dissent

Jamie Williams writes: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the federal “anti-hacking” statute, is long overdue for reform. The 1986 law—which was prompted in part by fear generated by the 1983 techno­thriller WarGames—is vague, draconian, and notoriously out of touch with how we use computers today. Unfortunately, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Lindsey Graham are on a mission…

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Precision Medicine Initiative and Data Security

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Dissent

Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Lisa O. Monaco write: The health care system of the future is taking shape right now, and the foundation of that new system is health care data that is private, trusted and secure. Today, we are pleased to release the final Data Security Policy Principles and Framework (Security Framework) for President Obama’s Precision…

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Probable security breach may have compromised thousands of Lewis Palmer students’ data

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Dissent

Sherrie Pief reports: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 officials are mum about the probability that a security breach related to its Infinite Campus platform may have compromised more than 2,000 students’ personal information. Infinite Campus is a software program that stores personal and academic information about students in the district. But wait… the district has known…

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Insider breach – Shapeshift’s story

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

@SwiftonSecurity kept telling everyone on Twitter that we #MUSTREAD the story of what happened at Shapeshift.io. And with good reason: it’s a phenomenal account of an insider breach told with the kind of refreshing honesty that’s often missing in most breach disclosures.  It also reads like a thriller. I’m going to give readers a different…

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Did some disgrace besmirch “Anonymous” by hacking Turkish hospitals and leaking sensitive patient info?

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Dissent

The leak of more than 50 million Turkish citizens’ information in 2015 and 2016 was cause for great concern. Now Kevin Collier reports on a claimed hack involving Turkish citizens’ information that involves very  sensitive personal and medical information. The hack was first reported by Hurriyet. Collier reports: A self-proclaimed member of the hacktivist group Anonymous has…

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