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55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked
Posted by on May 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM EDT"Tens of thousands of Twitter accounts have been compromised in a recent hack attack in which more than 55,000 passwords were leaked and posted to Pastebin by anonymous hackers."
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Mac OS X Lion User Passwords Exposed
Posted by on May 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM EDTA mistake by Apple can cause Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) to store your login password on the hard drive in clear text.
Exerpt:
"Anyone who used FileVault encryption on their Mac prior to Lion, upgraded to Lion, but kept the folders encrypted using the legacy version of FileVault is vulnerable. FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) is unaffected."
Read the full article on www.zdnet.com.
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Adobe Flash Player Security Update
Posted by on May 4, 2012 at 11:10 AM EDTOn May 4th, Adobe released a critical security patch for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. From the article: "There are reports that the object confusion vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) addressed in this update is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious file delivered in an email message."
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HIPAA Breaches on the rise: Are you prepared for an OCR visit?
Posted by on April 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM EDTWith the upward trend of HIPAA breaches being reported to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from all across America, multiple HIPAA advisors have brainstormed to identify the key components in establishing an effective program that aims to reduce an organization’s risk for a breach.
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Introducing Domain 3: Organization (with special appearances by two VPs!)
Posted by on April 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM EDTAs we continue our "12 Domains in 12 Months" awareness campaign which promotes the new IU Information Security and Privacy Program on behalf of its governance group, the Information Security and Privacy Risk Council, we now encourage you to review Domain 3: Organization!
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Information Security and Privacy Program Awareness Update
Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 12:53 PM EDTIn February Merri Beth Lavagnino announced the endorsement of the IU Information Security and Privacy Program, on behalf of its governance group, the Information Security and Privacy Risk Council. That announcement also kicked off a year long campaign to raise awareness of the Program.
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Microsoft says two basic security steps might have stopped infections
Posted by on April 26, 2012 at 7:05 AM EDTMicrosoft says that two basic actions could have prevented the spread of the Conficker worm to over 1.7 million systems in 2011.
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Weak passwords still subvert IT security
Posted by on April 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM EDTA recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 280,000 people served as yet another reminder of the well-recognized, but often discounted, risks associated with using weak and default passwords. In this case, the breached server was using a default administrative password or an easily guessable one, thereby allowing the attackers to bypass the perimeter-, network- and application-level security controls built to protect the agency's systems.
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How to download your data from Google and Facebook
Posted by on April 25, 2012 at 10:56 AM EDTHave you ever wondered how much personal information Facebook and Google keep about you? A reporter for The Guardian researched how to do this, and has made a step-by-step guide called "How to download your data from Google and Facebook." Why not give it a try and think carefully about the results you get? Should you adjust any of your settings (or your activities!) as a result?
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WordPress 3.3.2 Released
Posted by on April 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM EDTWordPress released version 3.3.2 of the free and open source blogging tool last Friday on April 20, 2012. WordPress has been a popular attack vector for criminals.
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