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Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Dissent

Cross-posted from the mother ship, PogoWasRight.org: I splurged and purchased a copy of the transcript of Thursday’s oral argument in FTC v. Wyndham . You can download it here (PDF, 561kB, 186 pp.). Consider it an early holiday gift from PogoWasRight.org to you. I look forward to reading everyone’s reactions after we’ve all had time to read it. I…

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NY: Sachem School District has student data leak (update1)

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Dissent

Michael Sorrentino reports: Leaked student records are allegedly now available on a website that may be the source of Sachem Central School District’s Friday announcement that internal district information has been posted onto a local message board. The website is the one referred to Patch by resident Stephanie Volpe, who posted screenshots of it Friday morning after…

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Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel report that Edward Snowden successfully socially engineered employees at the NSA into giving him their login credentials: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to…

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CT: Stamford Cablevision employee stole customer credit card info at walk-in center

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

Greg Canuel reports: A former employee of the Cablevision walk-in center in Norwalk was accused Wednesday of stealing customers’ credit card information, according to police reports. Residents from Norwalk and Stamford contacted the Norwalk Police Department in August after noticing fraudulent charges on their credit card bills, police said. Both reported that they had visited…

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Adobe breach even bigger than we knew

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dissent

Yes, the Adobe breach is back in the news as some have discovered that a data dump posted online contains the email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from 152 million Adobe user accounts.  Embarrassingly, one report notes that 1.9 million Adobe users used “123456” as their password.

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MN: Auditor says slack procedures contributed to MNsure breach

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Dissent

Jackie Crosby reports: The state’s Office of the Legislative Auditor said Thursday that a data privacy breach at MNsure involving 1,600 Social Security numbers was unintentional, but that slack internal procedures at the new health insurance exchange agency “contributed directly” to the disclosure. In a 22-page report, Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles found “no evidence of…

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