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TX: Resident Finds Unshredded Copies of Personal Documents in Apartment Dumpster

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Dissent

Alicia Neaves reports: On Tuesday morning, a resident of the Palms Apartments in Odessa made a disturbing discovery. […] NewsWest 9 remained with the resident until police arrived to pick up the bag. Once officers arrived, apartment management kicked us off the property. To find out if it was the apartment complex who threw these…

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Target ignored its own warning system – Bloomberg (updated)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Dissent

I’m watching  Josh Tyrangiel of Bloomberg on CBS News this morning reporting that prior to its massive breach, Target ignored the warning alerts generated by its  FireEye system.  Target hasn’t responded to Bloomberg’s questions as to why the warning e-mails generated by the system were ignored. Interestingly, we heard something similar in the Neiman-Marcus breach where…

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Seattle Archdiocese, FBI investigating data breach (update- may affect 90,000)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Dissent

John Langeler reports: Most people would enjoy getting a $7,000 check in the mail.  In the case of one West Seattle man, all the check indicated was his identity had been stolen. “The check had my Social Security Number on it as well as another woman’s name,” he said, asking us not to release his name,…

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Security firm report says Target data hack was low tech

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Dissent

Jennifer Bjorhus reports: The U.S. Secret Service has called the criminals behind Target Corp.’s monster security breach well-organized, “highly technical” and “sophisticated.” But cybersecurity firm McAfee Inc. said in a report out Monday that the heist was anything but exotic, describing the attack as a Breach 101 operation. The thieves used easily modified off-the-shelf malware, common methods…

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Statista Says Around 50,000 Users Are Impacted by Data Breach

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Dissent

Eduard Kovacs reports: On Saturday, we learned that statistics company Statista suffered a data breach. The company has responded to my inquiry about the incident and provided additional details. It turns out that roughly 50,000 users are impacted by the data breach. The incident was discovered after spam emails started landing in email addresses that have…

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Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200M Consumer Records – Krebs

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs writes: In October 2013, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on Americans directly from a company owned by Experian, one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus. Today’s story looks deeper at the damage wrought in this colossal misstep by one…

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