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Yet another data breach.

Bah!

A press release dropped into my inbox today, it seems 4.9 million (that’s 4,900,000) patients who were treated by military hospitals over the past 20 years have had their private data hacked. Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and “some personal health data” was exposed.  So how was this one done? 12 computer tapes containing “Personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI)” were stolen. Now the military’s health service is paying for one years worth of credit monitoring.

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Data breach!

…I’m speechless.

This past week there was an announcement from a local university that they exposed the private information of 18,931  employees from 2002 had been published for “at least three years.” They caught it by total accident when a current worker found the file online and quickly moved to remove the data.

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Secure web connection snooping?

Oh you’ve got to be kidding me.

A published report came out a bit ago about a hacker who basically destroyed the entire trust relationship scheme on the internet. I’m talking about digital certificates, those little pieces of computer code that verify the identity of a web site, or are used to secure a web connection between a server and a user. So why is this important? Continue reading Secure web connection snooping?

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