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NASA suffers major data breach over stolen laptop that wasn’t encrypted

Posted on December 29, 2012 by in Data loss, Privacy, Security, Security Threats, Technology

Posted November 15, 2012 The space agency is now, finally, after yet another unencrypted laptop theft, scrambling to require full disk encryption agency-wide. For more, here’s the story.

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Cyber attackers seize, encrypt and ransom medical centre’s patient database

Posted on December 12, 2012 by in Data loss, Ransomware, Security, Security Threats, Technology

Posted December 12, 2012 The data-kidnappers are demanding $4,000 to release thousands of patient records belonging to the Miami Family Medical Centre on Australia’s Gold Coast. Read more.

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Malware found sucking up data on new Japanese space agency rocket

Posted on December 7, 2012 by in Data loss, Malware, Security, Security Threats, Technology

Posted December 3, 2012 Malware discovered on a Japanese space agency desktop computer has been stealing data on Epsilon – a new, AI-enabled rocket – and beaming it to controllers outside the agency. It’s only the latest in a string of data-siphoning incidents that’s plagued the agency. Click here to read the full story.

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Goatse hacker Auernheimer found guilty of breaching AT&T to access customer iPad data

Posted on November 25, 2012 by in Apple, Data loss, Hacked, iOS, Law & order, Mobile, Phishing, Security, spam, Technology, Vulnerability

Posted November 22, 2012 A hacker claims he was disclosing a security flaw responsibly. But IRC transcripts show that the Goatse hacking group was instead musing about shorting AT&T stock, discussed selling 120,000 email addresses to spammers, and never told AT&T about the vulnerability in the first place. Here’s the full story.

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NASA suffers major data breach over stolen laptop that wasn’t encrypted

Posted on November 20, 2012 by in Data loss, Privacy, Security, Security Threats, Technology

Posted November 15, 2012 The space agency is now, finally, after yet another unencrypted laptop theft, scrambling to require full disk encryption agency-wide. Read more.

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Attacker grabs data for 3.6 million South Carolina taxpayers; governor wants to see culprit “brutalized”

Posted on November 9, 2012 by in Data loss, Government, Hacked, Law & order, Security, Security Threats, Technology, Vulnerability

Posted October 29, 2012 She’s got a right to be incensed, with 77% of the state’s population’s Social Security numbers being snatched out from under the Department of Revenue. But what’s the appropriate penalty for the department, for the crime of leaving the data unprotected? Read the full story on Naked Security.

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Intruder compromises user database for Star Trek Online and other MMORPGs

Posted on May 8, 2012 by in Data loss, Law & order, Security

Posted April 30, 2012 The studio behind Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Champions Online suffered a user account database breach 16 months ago… and is only warning users about it now. Read it. 

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