Breaches exposed 1 in 7 US debit cards in 2013

Computerworld Security: July 08, 2014
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Breaches exposed 1 in 7 US debit cards in 2013

Data breaches at retailers and financial services companies exposed 14 percent
of all U.S. debit cards in 2013, according to a nationwide survey by a major ATM
network operator.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers
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2. Secret code indicates NSA tracks privacy tool users
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3. Mobile phones, other devices under higher scrutiny at airports
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4. Encrypted instant messaging project seeks to obscure metadata
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5. Darlene Storm: If you care about online privacy, then the NSA cares about targeting you
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Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers

The Social Security numbers of roughly 18,000 California physicians and
health-care providers were inadvertently made public after a slip-up at health
insurance provider Blue Shield of California, the organization said Monday.
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Secret code indicates NSA tracks privacy tool users

A NSA spying tool is configured to snoop on an array of privacy programs used by
journalists and dissidents, according to an analysis of never-before-seen code
leaked by an unknown source.
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Mobile phones, other devices under higher scrutiny at airports

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has said it may ask air
travelers headed to the U.S. on direct flights to power up some electronic
devices, including cell phones, as part of enhanced security measures at certain
airports abroad.
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Encrypted instant messaging project seeks to obscure metadata

Security researchers have a working prototype of an instant messaging
application that aims to thoroughly obscure and scrub evidence that two parties
have been chatting.
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Darlene Storm: If you care about online privacy, then the NSA cares about targeting you


A report based on leaked top-secret NSA XKeyscore source code suggests that if
you care about online privacy enough to run a search for Tor, Tails, a free VPN
or other proxy, then that concern about digital privacy paints a
bull's-eye on your back and marks you, indefinitely, as a
"target" for surveillance.
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