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Former U. Akron student pleads guilty to damaging systems, DDoS attacks

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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NV: School district denies illegal record disposal accusation

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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POSitouch mfgr responds to lawsuit threat claims

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Five indicted in cybertheft of city’s bank accounts

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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FL: AT&T Info Dumped In Local’s Recycle Bin

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dissent

As I noted earlier this month in discussing ABC’s coverage of firms just dumping paper records without shredding them, Florida law doesn’t seem to prohibit such disposal. Now there’s another story out of Florida, this one covered by News4Jax, that also involves improper disposal of personal and financial information on hundreds of people: Jessica Menendez…

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