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More payback from the Obama Administration against groups that voted against him…
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The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the release could endanger their safety.
According to a document obtained by FoxNews.com, the EPA said “some of the personal information that could have been protected … was released.” Though [...]
A single email sent to South Carolina Department of Revenue employees has allowed a computer hacker to break into the state’s system and snatch personal information for millions of residents.
The email, which was sent in August, contained a link to a virus and, after at least one worker clicked it, the international hacker stole 1.9 million Social Security numbers, 3.8 million tax returns and bank account details for 3.3 million [...]
National Grid security boss Warren Bamford’s laptop is stolen:
A laptop belonging to a National Grid security boss and former FBI agent has been stolen from a hotel room.
The laptop belonging to Warren Bamford, who retired from the FBI in 2010 and joined the National Grid as their vice presiden
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk…n-8190641.html
Silly boy leaving it in his hotel room unattended.
Says he is an ex FBI agent too, which FBI though? US or UK?
National [...]
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday morning at precisely 8:30, after a 10-second countdown synchronized to the Naval Observatory’s atomic clock, a Labor Department official will flip a master switch in the agency’s battened-down pressroom and newswire computers will blurt out the monthly Consumer Price Index.
Until that moment, the market-sensitive data will be guarded with launch-code secrecy, a precaution against anyone who might try to take advantage of an accidental or a surreptitious [...]
byMark Tapscott Executive Editor
Unrest is simmering in some quarters of the Washington news universe regarding changes in the way the Department of Labor (DOL) manages its pre-release media “lockups” on sensitive data like weekly jobless benefits and unemployment.
For years, journalists participating in the lockups have shown up at DOL at the appointed time, then entered a limited-access area to receive the new data and prepare news stories for release as soon [...]
By Ellen Nakashima
Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what may be the first reported case of a malicious cyber attack on a critical computer system in the United States, according to an industry expert.
On Nov. 8, a municipal water district employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump control system, and a technician determined the system [...]
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyberattack whose dimensions are still unknown.
The fund, which manages financial crises around the world and is the repository of highly confidential information about the fiscal condition of [...]
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyberattack whose dimensions are still unknown.
The fund, which manages financial crises around the world and is the repository of highly confidential information about the fiscal condition [...]
From AP:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users – records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.
It’s not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week’s revelation that [...]
Franken (left), Schumer, Whitehouse and Blumenthal wrote to Facebook about privacy. | AP Photos
By TONY ROMM
Democrats on the Senate’s newest privacy panel are urging Facebook to “reverse†a plan that would allow app developers the ability to request access to users’ addresses, phone numbers and other contact information.
It’s the strongest signal of concern yet coming from Capitol Hill, where other members have questioned Facebook’s new feature [...]
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