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Obama orders feds to adopt credit-card technology limiting identity theft

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Dissent

Eric Garcia reports: In an effort to combat identify theft, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government-issued credit cards to use “chip-and-pin” technology. Read more on MarketWatch. You can access the full text of the Executive Order here. It also includes helping ID theft victims remediate more quickly.

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AU: Asylum seekers’ personal details stolen in second immigration data breach

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Dissent

As if the first breach affecting asylum seekers wasn’t dangerous enough, Ben Doherty now reports a second breach: The personal details of hundreds of asylum seekers on Nauru have been stolen in a second major data breach within Australia’s immigration detention system. At least two hard drives, not password-protected and containing the personal details of hundreds…

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KY: Jefferson Co. deletes sensitive info from records

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Dissent

It took them about 4 years and $400,000, but Jefferson County in Kentucky has purged public documents that are available online of residents’ Social Security numbers and other information that could be used for identify theft. WDRB has the story. Good for them!

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NYS Attorney General Schneiderman Announces Multi-state Settlement With TD Bank Over Lost Backup Tapes

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Dissent

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a multi-state settlement with TD Bank, N.A. that resolves an inquiry into a 2012 data breach in which 1.4 million files were compromised. The $850,000 settlement requires the bank to reform its practices to help ensure that future incidents do not occur. New York State will receive $114,106.11…

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Korea suffers over 106 million privacy breaches in 4 years

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

Cho Mu-hyun reports: The shocking figure of over 106 million privacy breaches was unveiled by a report of data leaks between 2010 to 2014 filed by the Korea Communication Commission (KCC) to the National Assembly during the yearly government audit of ministries. The figure means that each person has, on average, had his or her…

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Did MCCCD leadership shut their eyes to a database security assessment for plausible deniability in litigation?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

A former Maricopa County Community College District employee alleges executive leadership closed their eyes to a report on their database security conducted after their massive data breach in 2013 so they would have plausible deniability in any litigation. As a result, the employee alleges, the findings were never shared with those tasked with securing MCCCD’s data assets.  In November…

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