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This Tool Lets You Check If Your Personal Info Is on the Dark Web

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: It’s pretty hard to know when your data might have been compromised. Over the last few years, an industry of threat intelligence firms has popped up that offer to monitor criminal forums, paste sites, and Tor hidden services for stolen intellectual property or customer information. Now, one of these companies is letting…

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Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Dissent

Troy Hunt writes: I see a lot of data breaches. I see a lot of legit ones and I see a lot of fake ones and because of that, I always verify them before making any claims that an organisation has been hacked. Usually I’ll verify and then in conjunction with journalists I know and trust, there’ll…

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Hackers Track HashOcean Mining Company

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Dissent

The latest information from a group which claims to be ethical hackers shows efforts to trace the owners and identify the operation of the defunct HashOcean Bitcoin mining company, which suddenly disappeared with an estimated millions of dollars worth of the digital currency as investment from miner, is ongoing. “We are so close and we have been…

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AL governor axes officials, asks FBI for help after finding unauthorized access to state’s criminal justice database

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Dissent

Paul Gattis reports: Gov. Robert Bentley has fired a high-ranking official in the state department of finance and placed a second on leave after concerns of a computer security breach emerged. The breach came to light following an investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, according to a letter Bentley wrote June 10 to the FBI….

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Announcement: Heading to Montreal F1

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Dissent

So thanks to a regular – and wonderful – reader of PogoWasRight.org, I snagged tickets to the Montreal Grand Prix and am heading up there for the weekend. News updates will probably be in the evening, but may not get fully caught up until I’m back next Tuesday. Similarly, submitted comments may sit in moderation…

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Heading out to the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Dissent

My favorite conference of the year is PLSC. I always feel honored that this snarky non-lawyer, non-scholarly PITA is invited. I’ll be on the road much of today, and if you can believe it, I will be staying with a friend who has… wait for it… dial-up.  If you submit comments on posts,  they may sit in the moderation…

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