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WHID 2009-35: Former US Senator Donors Information Leaks

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17 March 2009

Norm Coleman, a former senator from Minnesota, is going through a legal battle to try to win back his seat in the senate. If the way he manages his web site security and the crises it created are an indicator, I am not sure that he has a place there.

WHID 2009-10: MacRumorsLive feed hack

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27 January 2009

It seems that if the worse thing that can happen to hackers is a real accident to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. The number of hacks devoted to informing us about his fictitious accidents is just overwhelming. In this case AnantaSec reports a hack into Mac Rumors feed that was possible simply because a file with the administrator password was laying around accessible to anyone due to an administration error.

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WHID 2007-83: More Social Security numbers leaked at Montana State University

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