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Court grants stay in FTC v. LabMD

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dissent

The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has granted LabMD’s request for a stay of FTC’s final order in FTC v. LabMD. From the opinion: First, it is not clear that a reasonable interpretation of § 45(n) includes intangible harms like those that the FTC found in this case. As the FTC Opinion said, § 45(n)…

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IN: Madison County pays ransom on advice of insurer

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dissent

Well, this is interesting: a media report says that a county’s insurer advised them to pay a ransomware demand. Ken de la Bastide reports: On the advice of their insurance company Madison County officials are moving forward to pay the ransom demands by a unknown group that attacked the county’s computer system. Madison County was…

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Yahoo hack: Yahoo said its employees knew about the hack in 2014

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dissent

ITPro reports: In a securities filing on Wednesday, Yahoo said some of its employees knew that a “state-sponsored actor” had broken into its network two years ago. This was the attack that led to theft of data such as names, dates of birth and passwords associated with more than 500 (sic) accounts. It’s considered to be one…

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MI: Confidential information put at risk, state auditors say

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dissent

Justin A. Hinkley reports: The state did not properly secure certain confidential records that included Social Security numbers, tax information and personal health information, state auditors reported Thursday. Auditors found no instances of a security breach at the state Department of Technology, Management & Budget’s Records Management Services, but found several issues that put Michiganders’ personal information…

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Personal information for thousands of Colorado vets may have been compromised

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dissent

KKTV reports: More than 2,100 Colorado veterans may have had their personal information compromised, the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) said Wednesday. At risk are the veterans’ names, the last four digits of their Social Security number and their diagnoses. According to the ECHCS, the information may have been compromised when a VA…

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Customers for more than a hundred car dealerships across the US were put at risk because of shoddy database security

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: If you bought a car in the last few years, there’s a good chance your personal information may have found its way to the open internet. Names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers for both customers and employees for over a hundred car dealerships have leaked online, all thanks to a…

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