Conn. State Workers' Info Ends Up on Web
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HARTFORD, Conn. - More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
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By Jon Cawley, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 5--GLOUCESTER -- The National Policy Research Council has named Gloucester and York counties official Web sites as being among the country's best in providing electronic government services.
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TWO WEB SITES: A probe by the Connecticut attorney general centers on two nearly identical Best Buy Web sites - the one available to the public, the other only to employees - that featured varying prices on some merchandise.
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Also: Electronic devices seized at border searches. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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In September, the Connecticut Post, a daily paper based in Bridgeport, ran an illustration with personal information of jurors in a case involving the death penalty.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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By Lisa Redmond, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  May 24--Rita Savard   rsavard@lowellsun.com   BOSTON -- State police have launched their first "missing children" Web site, which includes two local children who have been missing for more than two decades.
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The Vermont Agency of Human Services is warning some 70,000 people in the state that a computer breach may have exposed their Social Security Numbers and other personal data.
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(InfoWorld) - Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors, and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday. The malicious code behind the attacks was first detected by computer intrusion prevention vendor Prevx on July 5. In total, the criminals were able to cull 200MB ofÂ information from about 500 computers, including password and login data, Prevx said. All but one of the computers was located in the U.S., and many of the computers that were infected were associated with air transportation, according to Mel Morris, CEO of Prevx. "This was a well-coordinated attack by someone wanting to get information on the related sites." PCs at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), American Airlines, and DOT contractor Booz Allen Hamilton all were compromised, Morris said. If DOT systems were compromised, the department is unaware of the situation. "We haven't found any record of a problem," a DOT spokeswoman said Tuesday. Prevx obtained a sample of the Trojan used in the attacks on Friday of last week. By Saturday, it had tracked down a Web site, hosted by YahooÂ in Sunnyvale, California, where information from the compromised PCs was dropped. Because Prevx found a "massive amount" of job applications on the Web site used by the criminals, the company believes that victims may have downloaded the malicious software while thinking they were applying for a job. That Web site, which had probably been hacked by the criminals behind the scam, was shut down on Tuesday, Morris said. It hosted about 200MB of password information, and log-files on the server showed the IP addresses of the infected PCs. Victims of the Trojan, called Win32.PSWSteal.Gen , are told that their hard drive has been encrypted and that they will need to pay $300 to for a decryption tool. Morris believes this extortion threat is actually a ruse designed to conceal the attacker's true motivation: data gathering. "We think the ransomware is to point anyone investigating this down the wrong alley," he said. Morris said he is troubled that such a high percentage of the infected PCs are related to the transportation sector, which has been the target of terrorist attacks. "When we reverse-engineered the IP addresses of those computers, we couldn't believe that this was a daisy chain that led to government-associated sites and to other defense contractors, and to American Airlines," Morris said. "This was a very highly targeted attack." Criminals have increasingly turned to this type of targeted attack in order to collect and eventually sell data from corporations and government agencies, said Marcus Sachs, deputy director of research group SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. But while Prevx's list of compromised organizations is "kind of scary," it's still hard to characterize what was motivating the attack, Sachs said. "I wouldn't necessarily associate it with terrorists," he said.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec.
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By SUSAN HAIGH HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut and at least a dozen other states are considering whether to require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses as part of efforts to combat online sexual predators.
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Web "Portal" with secured services as : directory, job offers, etc ... especially for the use by Alumni associations   As of today, the first public version of this Intranet for Alumni's is available on sourceforge.net.
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The Web site of identity-fraud suspects operating as the "Shadow Crew" has been replaced by information about alleged members' arrests.
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Also: States stand up to cyberbullies. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Kenneth C. Crowe II, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 8--Editor's note: This story first appeared on timesunion.com Wednesday night.