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Disaster agency admits to massive “oversharing” of personal information
Interesting (beta) tool to answer the question "how bad is it that I was in X breach and what should I do about it?"
The owner of Exactis, a 10-person firm that exposed a database including nearly every American, tells the story of his company's downfall.
PLAIN TEXT PASSWORDS.
The fax server did it.
Repercussions from the scandal swirling around the data analytics firm continue to be felt across the tech industry.
Sony breach post-mortem.
Security researchers have found dozens of companies inadvertently leaking sensitive corporate and customer data because staff are sharing public links to files in their Box enterprise storage accounts that can easily be discovered. The discoveries were made by Adversis, a cybersecurity firm, which found major tech companies and corporate giants had left data inadvertently exposed. […]
150GB database included mortgage amounts, info on credit ratings.
A new report claims Equifax neglected cybersecurity for years leading up to the massive 2017 data breach.
We hear about them all the time, another company getting its data breached. Another credit card scanner hacked. But do you really know what a data breach is exactly and what it means if it happens to you? Here’s a quick rundown of data breaches and what you should know.
Before this week, Stanford students could view the Common Applications and high school transcripts of other students if they first requested to view their own admission documents under FERPA.
The "wall of shame" of medical data breaches. All breaches that affect =500 people.
Updated: An Oklahoma Department of Securities server allowed anyone to download government files.
Yet another Amazon S3 screwup.
Good example of a totally crappy incident notification. Students could rip it apart in class! Via Twitter: "- Instant attribution to North Korea - Reference to 9/11 terrorist attacks - Needless use of “sophisticated” - Claiming detection wasn’t possible - Reference other victims to note defense is hard"
Thousands of people trusted Blind, an app-based “anonymous social network,” as a safe way to reveal malfeasance, wrongdoing and improper conduct at their companies. But Blind left one of its database servers exposed without a password, making it possible (for anyone who knew where to look) to access each user’s account information and identify would-be […]
REALLY NICE overview of Big Data in education and why it's problematic.