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Analyst sees Target data breach costs topping $1 billion

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Dissent

Tom Webb reports: Two months into the Target security breach, fraud is turning up on 10 percent to 15 percent of the stolen card accounts, a security specialist says. Based on that brisk level of criminal activity, one Wall Street analyst estimates that perhaps 5 million of the 40 million stolen credit and debit cards…

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11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking  to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…

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URM updates breach notification

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Dissent

URM Stores has posted an update to a breach disclosed in November.  The update indicates that the attack was “similar to” attacks reported by other grocery chains and retailers.  URM was first alerted to the breach on October 31 by a bank, but its preliminary investigation did not uncover any signs of an attack. After…

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Vengeful EnerVest Operating network engineer pleads guilty to intentionally damaging computer system

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Dissent

CHARLESTON – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a former network engineer at Charleston-based EnerVest Operating pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage to his employer’s computer system.  Ricky Joe Mitchell, 34, now of Mableton, GA, admitted that in June of 2012, shortly after he learned that he was going to be fired, he…

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Norwalk, Ohio Mayor: Sorry about the SSN on postcards

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Dissent

Tom Jackson reports: Norwalk’s mayor says city officials regret mailing out thousands of postcards that list the Social Security numbers of local taxpayers. City officials have asked the recipients to destroy the cards, and they’ve already mailed out substitute cards that omit the sensitive numbers. “Obviously, we’re very sorry and we wish it had never happened,”…

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Target Hackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Dissent

Danny Yadron, Paul Ziobro and Charles Levinson report: The hackers who stole 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers from Target Corp. appear to have breached the discounter’s systems by using credentials stolen from a vendor. The finding will help to start unraveling the riddle of how the software that carried out the attack got into Target’s systems….

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