Remember the Illinois State Board of Education laptops stolen from a Harrisburg Project van recently? I was reading more about the incident and noticed that there was even more sensitive data on the laptops than originally indicated in media coverage: The staff data stored on the computers included name, demographics, Social Security number, teacher certification…
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Grossmont Union High School database leaked!!!!!
Grossmont Union High School has been compresmised by hackers and a database leaked via twitter the twitter post was as MoooCowMoooCow Cow of Moo @jadedsecurity @LulzSec @AntiSec_ leak of GrossmontUnionHighSchool Logins (WTF?? You’re against education? nice.) pastebin.com/fUN1BABu #dum
State extends contract with company that lost West Aurora, Kaneland schools information
Do training using real data? Neither necessary nor smart…. and yet their contract is extended? Matt Brennan reports: West Aurora and Kaneland were the only school districts in the Fox Valley impacted when two laptop computers were recently stolen that contained the personal information of more than 10,000 students and staff from 42 school districts…
IMS v. Sorrell: Pharmaceutical Speech Protected by Court – Opinion Analysis
Law prof Ruthann Robson comments on the Supreme Court’s decision in IMS v. Sorrell: As expected from the oral argument in April, the Court’s opinion today in IMS v. Sorrell finds Vermont’s statute prohibiting the practices that allow pharmaceutical detailing to be unconstitutional. The opinions can be said to answer this query: When is a commercial speech regulation…
When will people stop leaving laptops in cars?
Associated Press adds some details to the Harrisburg Project/Illinois State Board of Education breach reported previously on this blog. According to AP, one of the details is that the laptops were stolen June 8 “from a car at a Palatine hotel.” So the laptops were left in a car? Seriously, folks?
Stolen laptops could put student, staff information at risk
Matt Brennan reports: Aurora resident Joy Smith was shocked when she opened her mail a few days ago. She had received a letter from the Harrisburg Project, a data storage subcontractor who works with the Illinois State Board of Education. The letter said two laptops had been stolen from a van being used by Harrisburg…