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Fortune’s Easton highlights cyber threats
Nina Easton‘s latest Fortune column focuses on the threats of cyber attacks from bad actors in places such as China and Russia. In May, the Obama administration tried to regain…
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Health Care
Another concern about Obamacare-related private data
Here’s another item to add to the catalog of concerns about Obamacare: the threat of the “Belarussian Connection.” The Washington Free Beacon explains. U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the…
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Report: Half Of Federal Agency Security Breaches Caused By Employees
From the Federal Times: While cyber professionals work to minimize the cyber threats faced by federal agencies, one of the biggest security flaws may be the network users themselves, according…
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ObamaCare Exchange Sent Social Security Numbers To Broker
ObamaCare’s breach of privacy has begun. In one of the first breaches of the new Obamacare online marketplaces, an employee of the Minnesota marketplace, called MNsure, accidentally emailed Koester a…
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Are We Secure Enough, Yet?
Anymore, security means the opposite. As just one example, one must reduce one’s being to numbers that any hacker can access much more easily than one can remember them himself,…
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Should We Be Concerned?
According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, the names and Social Security numbers of 8000 workers, non-workers, or perhaps even employers were mailed to the wrong place by the passive voice, exposing…
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New at CJO: Perdue staffers appear to have violated agreements ‘regularly’ regarding labor data
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online that members of Gov. Beverly Perdue’s administration “appear regularly to have violated signed agreements between the state and the federal Bureau of Labor…
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DNA and Data Breaches
As I wrote in my recent report on law enforcement collecting DNA on individuals who have been arrested, a major issue isn’t just government abuse of the data but the…