The Roanoke City School Superintendent told the districts more than 2000 employees that their personal information may have been compromised. Rita Bishop said today that eight computers the district sold second-hand still had their hard dives intact. Those hard drives were supposed to be removed before the computers were sold. This potential compromise of personal…
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Former U. Akron student pleads guilty to damaging systems, DDoS attacks
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced Wednesday Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli and pleaded guilty to a two-count Information filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a protected computer system and possessing…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…
NV: School district denies illegal record disposal accusation
Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District denied that student records are being disposed illegally, an allegation made recently by information protection professional Tom Considine during his radio show “Who Complys.” Considine said CCSD employees contacted him last year asking about proper disposal of student records, claiming the district dumps special education and psychological…
POSitouch mfgr responds to lawsuit threat claims
Earlier this week, I posted a press release about a potential lawsuit against POSitouch and its New Jersey reseller, CC Productions. I contacted both POSitouch and the reseller to ask for a response, and POSitouch has just sent me a press release that they issued today. I have not heard back from their reseller. I…
Five indicted in cybertheft of city’s bank accounts
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, Calif. […] The alleged thieves used valid login credentials to access the city’s bank account and initiate both the…