Cybersecurity

Bitcoin miners unearth 30,000 college student SSNs

Education // Iowa, United States

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Borras lands at consulting firm

The former DHS undersecretary for management is now a senior adviser at A.T. Kearney.

Cybersecurity

Brazil Is About To Have an Internet Bill of Rights

This first-of-its-kind bill spells out internet users' rights to access and privacy.

Cybersecurity

GSA Has a New Plan for Cloud Providers Navigating Changing Security Standards

Transition plan provides specific FedRAMP guidance to CSPs at varying stages.

Cybersecurity

ATF plans new case management system

Next generation case management systems have bedeviled federal law enforcement agencies, with both ICE and the FBI running into trouble.

Cybersecurity

Increased trust boosts Pentagon-industry info sharing

In the seven years since the creation of the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Information Assurance program, contractors have become less skittish about what sharing can do to their bottom lines, a Pentagon official says.

Cybersecurity

Beware of the self-inflicted data breach

Verizon report finds more than a quarter of cyber incidents involve internal errors, not outside attacks.

Cybersecurity

Government Employees Cause Nearly 60% of Public Sector Cyber Incidents

Misfired emails and other errors account for most of the compromised data.

Cybersecurity

ID theft at prominent medical center leads to 788 fraud incidents

Healthcare and Public Health // Pennsylvania, United States

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None of 20,000 patients affected were ever notified of 911 computer breach

Healthcare and Public Health // Ohio, United States

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Guarding against Heartbleed not so simple

As DHS discusses the ongoing assessment, cybersecurity experts warn that "you never know when you're done."

Cybersecurity

Deltek Breach Raises Questions About Widespread Hacking

Feds won't confirm company assertions about the attack, which affected 80,000 employees of government contractors.

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Feds warn HealthCare.gov users about Heartbleed

HHS officials reset 8 million user accounts as a precaution, though they said they have found no indication that personal information has been targeted.

Cybersecurity

Heartbleed Means HealthCare.gov Users Must Reset Passwords

The online marketplace's homepage directs users to change their login information.

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Hackers Scour Boob Job Records, Identify Anonymous, and Hold Up Nebraska Bank

Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.

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GAO: SEC needs to bolster info security

Auditors say the commission did not adequately oversee the contractor in charge of migrating one of its financial systems to a new production environment.