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WI: Mental health counseling clinic notifies patients after laptop with sensitive data stolen

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Dissent

Nathaniel Shuda reports that Fox River Counseling Center has notified 509 patients of a breach of personal and medical information after a burglary in October that involved the theft of an unsecured laptop. The computer contained outpatient mental health records of clients who visited the center from Nov. 7, 2012, to Aug. 19, 2014, and Wisconsin…

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Cybersleuth’s scary find: Hackers, some at least Iran-based, can control dated U.S. power grid networks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Dissent

AP reports: Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the U.S. power grid. Read more on The Japan Times.

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Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Dissent

by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Dec. 21, 2015, 7 a.m. This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Nursing home workers across the country are posting embarrassing and dehumanizing photos of elderly residents on social media networks such as Snapchat, violating their privacy, dignity and, sometimes, the law. ProPublica has identified 35 instances since 2012 in…

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Iranian Hackers Infiltrated New York Dam in 2013

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Dissent

Danny Yadron reports: Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident. Read more on WSJ.

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ID: Police: Hundreds of local victims of credit card skimming scam

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Dissent

Scott Malone reports: There are hundreds of victims of a major credit card fraud case, and dozens of them might not even realize it. Detectives with the Post Falls Police Department told KHQ Saturday that they now believe there are at least 800 local people who have had their credit card information stolen through skimmers inside…

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Credit card info of donors to pro-Muslim or anti-islamophobia organizations leaked

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Dissent

Update: Post-publication, the Virtue Center web site was taken offline and has not returned as of December 23. An undated entry on another site lists Shakil Islam and Faizan Sattar as “former employers” of VC. At the time of publication, however, they were listed on VC’s web site as part of their team. Follow-up e-mail…

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