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Category: U.S.

Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher reports on an interesting revelation concerning the second data breach at the University of Maryland: A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working…

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Iowa, North Carolina join states studying Experian breach – Reuters

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Dissent

Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld of Reuters also have more on the Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search that has put millions of consumers at risk of identity theft or financial fraud: Iowa and North Carolina said they are looking into a breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed some 200 million social security numbers,…

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Bibb Co. still working to address data breach

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Dissent

Macon-Bibb County officials said Tuesday that they have fixed a website security breach that exposed potentially thousands of people’s personal information, including Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, and birth certificates. The security breach appears to be contained to people who have applied for jobs with the government going back about four years, according to a…

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Federal court denies Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ motion to dismiss FTC’s complaint

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Dissent

Ashkan Soltani has uploaded an important ruling in FTC v. Wyndham, a case discussed many times on this blog. The short version of the ruling is that Wyndham went 0 for 3 on its challenges to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security under the FTC Act, to enforce data security in the absence of regulations that…

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Neiman Marcus Data Breach Said Work of Russians Who Eluded U.S.

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Dissent

Michael Riley reports: Hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Russian group is well known to U.S. authorities, who have indicted…

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IL: New teacher licensing system full of glitches, hitches

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Dissent

Diane Rado reports: Just hours after the state launched a new, multimillion-dollar teacher licensing system last year, an educator logging in was shocked to find a serious security breach. “I discovered that by doing a public search using any educator’s name, ALL of our personal information is available to everyone. This is alarming!” the educator…

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