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High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Dissent

See? This is what happens when you don’t teach students how to hack. They have to hire someone.  Lisa Vaas reports: A 17-year-old high school boy may face state and federal charges for allegedly having paid a third party to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled the West Ada school district…

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U.S. House panel issues subpoena to Fed over 2012 information leak

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Dissent

Michael Flaherty and Emily Stephenson of Reuters report: The chairman of a U.S. congressional committee on Thursday subpoenaed Federal Reserve documents and communications related to a 2012 leak of monetary policy information, ramping up his attack of the central bank’s handling of the case. Jeb Hensarling, a Republican of Texas who chairs the U.S. House…

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Another day, another laptop stolen from a car?

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Dissent

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was recently mentioned on this site as one of the clients of a medical billing firm that had to notify clients that patient information had been  stolen by a rogue employee. Less than one week later, UPMC had another situation to deal with, but it’s not one that made…

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Hundreds of people who want to hire hackers just got outed

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Dissent

Kashmir Hill reports: In February, an Alabama woman named Terri went on a hacker-for-hire website called Hacker’s List, and posted a job she needed done. “I need to get information off an iPhone6, mainly texts (current and deleted if possible and the call log),” she wrote. “Or get into their email account … Thanks so…

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NY: Nurse took patient info to new employer (and no, it’s not the Jacobi Medical Center breach)

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Dissent

For the second time this week, we learn that a departing employee took information to their new job. First it was the Jacobi Medical Center case, where the employee’s motives were reportedly innocent: she wanted the information in case she ever had to follow-up on work she had done. Now it’s the University of Rochester Medical Center, where…

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MasterCard, Target data breach settlement falls apart

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Dissent

Joseph Ax reports that the proposed $19 million settlement between MasterCard and Target over the retailer’s 2013 data breach has fallen through because not enough banks accepted the deal. The settlement was contingent on banks that issued at least 90 percent of the MasterCard accounts signing on to the agreement by May 20. Any bank…

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