Montana data breach exposes 1.3 million personal records

Computerworld Security: June 25, 2014
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Montana data breach exposes 1.3 million personal records

Up to 1.3 million records, including health care and bank account information,
may have been exposed after a server at Montana's public health department was
hacked in May, the state said Tuesday.
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1. New software targets hard-to-understand privacy policies
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2. Encrypted Web traffic can reveal highly sensitive information
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3. New Havex malware variants target industrial control system, SCADA users
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4. Police turning to mobile malware for monitoring
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New software targets hard-to-understand privacy policies

Have you ever tried to read a website's privacy policy only to give up after
slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language?
Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and TRUSTe have released a new browser
add-on that attempts to translate those policies into easy-to-understand terms.
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Encrypted Web traffic can reveal highly sensitive information

Analyzing encrypted Web traffic can potentially reveal highly sensitive
information such as medical conditions and sexual orientation, according to a
research paper that forecasts how privacy on the Internet may erode.
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New Havex malware variants target industrial control system, SCADA users

A malware threat previously used in attacks against energy sector companies is
now being aimed at organizations that use or develop industrial applications and
machines.
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Police turning to mobile malware for monitoring

Governments are increasingly using spyware for mobile devices to monitor
targets, raising questions over the possible misuse of such tools, a new study
suggests.
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