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Security breach pushes Cumberland Valley officials to move up plans for network audit

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Dissent

Tricia Kline reports an update to a breach reported in August: The Cumberland Valley School Board has approved a $43,000 contract for a security audit of the district computer network following a security breach that was discovered in August. Before the breach occurred, CV spokeswoman Tracy Panzer said, the district was planning to budget a security audit…

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Voter info stolen in Southeast DC?

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Dissent

WUSA9 reports: A volunteer says laptops with voters’ information was stolen in an early morning break-in at the Davis Elementary voting precinct in Southeast D.C., reports WUSA9 producer Stephanie Wilson. A Board of Elections official said no voter information was compromised, because the laptops have to be connected to the BOE network for anyone to…

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ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Dissent

Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…

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Not-so Anonymous: How hackers wreaked havoc in St. Louis

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Dissent

David Hunn has a lengthy piece on how so-called hacktivists and identity thieves disrupted the lives of people who were neither responsible for Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson nor for law enforcement’s response. Here’s how it begins: The first call came on a Thursday, 12 days after Michael Brown was shot. Patti Knowles and her granddaughter…

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Shorter University responds to theft of records of former student athletes

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Dissent

This item is from late September. Jeremy Stewart reported: Shorter University is reviewing security protocol after a group of files containing students’ personal information was removed from a campus building. A letter obtained by the Rome News-Tribune was sent out to former student-athletes by Shorter Vice President for Finance and CFO Susan Zeird urging them to…

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TX: Security Breach At Euless Mattress Firm

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Dissent

Bud Gillett reports: A CBS 11 News viewer tipped us off to a breach of security at a local business that can put customers’ private financial information at risk. The viewer told CBS 11 News he took the photos at the dumpster behind a Mattress Firm store at the southwest corner of Glade Road and…

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