http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081231094603792
OH: OSU students told that private information was on Internet
Wednesday, December 31 2008 @ 09:46 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Ohio State University has notified 18,000 current and former students that their names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly stored on a computer server exposed to the Internet.
A vendor doing work for Ohio State's student health insurance plan made the mistake. Only students enrolled in the school's insurance program from fall 2005 to summer 2006 are affected.
... The data included student names, Social Security numbers, addresses and coverage dates for those enrolled in the health insurance plan for three quarters in 2005-06.
Source - Columbus Dispatch - OSU web site on breach
[From the article:
Ohio State officials said the students' personal information has been deleted from Internet search engines [I doubt they know of half the search engines out there. What they actually mean is the archives some SEs make. Bob] and they haven't heard of any cases of identity theft related to the incident.
... OSU officials became concerned when a small number of students said they had found their personal data on the Internet in September.
Tip to crooks: Pick you targets carefully!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081231104112259
IL: 8 arrested in ring targeting police credit unions
Wednesday, December 31 2008 @ 10:41 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Police have arrested eight people in a two-month-long investigation of at least $150,000 in credit card fraud against members of two police credit unions, officials announced late Tuesday.
The fraud ring, which involved seven employees of Chicago-area retail stores, hit 140 accounts at Illinois State Police Credit Union and the Chicago Patrolmen's Credit Union, according to Illinois State Police.
... The ring involved seven employees of retail stores who either bought merchandise fraudulently or helped other people buy goods fraudulently. Investigators began their probe after people with accounts at the two credit unions found out someone was making fraudulent purchases on their cards, according to police.
Source - Chicago Breaking News
Related - Press Release from Illinois Attorney General, sent by Rob Douglas.
Every new technology (toy) needs software written from scratch. How else can we re-invent all the classic glitches of a bygone era?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F31%2F1428254&from=rss
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 31, @10:04AM from the i-bet-a-bricked-zune-is-still-warm dept. Bug Media Microsoft Hardware
jddeluxe writes
"There are multiple reports springing up all over the internet of a mass suicide of Microsoft 30GB Zune players globally. Check Zune forums, Gizmodo, or other such sites; the reports are spreading rapidly, except apparently to the Microsoft official Zune site."
Related Fix or wishful thinking?
http://gizmodo.com/5121822/official-fix-for-the-zune-30-fail
Official Fix for the Zune 30 Fail
By Brian Lam, 5:29 PM on Wed Dec 31 2008
Microsoft's responded to the Zune 30GB failure, blaming a leap-year handling bug. And they've provided a fix. Which is to wait til New Years, when the bug will go away by itself. Huh.
Sour Grapes, corporate style. If you send customers to the Internet, will they ever return? (And if you thought that customers would meekly accept this, read the comments!)
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F31%2F1827256&from=rss
Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows
Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 31, @02:09PM from the how-to-keep-hulu-in-page-views dept. The Media Businesses Television
EdIII writes
"The dispute between Time Warner and Viacom over fees seems to be without any resolution this year. Time Warner faces the possibility of being without content for almost 20 channels. Alexander Dudley, a spokesperson for Time Warner, is fighting back: 'We will be telling our customers exactly where they can go to see these programs online,' Mr. Dudley said. 'We'll also be telling them how they can hook up their PCs to a television set.' Why pay for digital cable when many content providers are now providing it on demand via the Internet? Not to mention the widespread availability of TV shows in both standard and high definition on public and private torrent tracker sites. It is entirely possible to watch television with no commercials or advertising with only an Internet connection. So getting your content via the Internet is not exactly free, but it certainly isn't contributing to Time Warner or any other cable providers' revenue stream. The real question is why Time Warner would fight back by so clearly showing how increasingly obsolete they are becoming and that cable providers are losing their monopolistic grip on media delivery."
If no agreement is reached, those channels are supposed to be dropped just after midnight tonight.
[One interesting comment:
If you go to www.mtv.com or www.comedycentral.com (or any other Viacom property) and you're coming from a Time Warner-served IP, you'll get a nice pop up message that indicates your channels will be dropped on your (assumed) cable service.
It is also my understanding that after new years, should there be no deal, that Viacom will be pulling video access for a variety of their sites, if you're coming from the aforementioned ISP. Obviously its not that hard to do, if they already have that pop up working.
Related Did Viacom chicken out?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010100621.html
Viacom and Time Warner reach deal to avoid blackout
Reuters Thursday, January 1, 2009; 7:38 AM
Related but opposite? Turmoil in the music space? Still searching for a business model!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F31%2F2149236&from=rss
Capitol Records Flooded Internet With MP3s, Says MP3Tunes CEO
Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 31, @05:29PM from the how-much-carrot-how-much-stick dept. The Courts
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes
"In court papers filed in New York in Capitol Records v. MP3Tunes, the CEO of MP3Tunes, Michael Robertson, has accused the plaintiffs EMI, Capitol Records, and other EMI record labels of flooding the internet with free MP3s of their songs for promotional purposes, 'free to everyone (except, apparently, MP3tunes).' His 10-page declaration (PDF) provides exact details of specific song files, including the URLs from which they are being distributed free of charge, both by paid content distributors, and by EMI itself from its own web sites."
FEMA: A whole 'nother country? Is it me, or are they speaking gibberish?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020204.html
December 31, 2008
FEMA Launches DisasterAssistance.gov
"DisasterAssistance.gov is an easy to use website that consolidates disaster information in one place. Currently, 17 U.S. Government agencies, which sponsor more than 40 forms of disaster assistance, contribute to the website. You can apply for many forms of assistance with a single, online application. Your application information is shared only with those agencies that you identify and is protected by the highest levels of security. Ultimately, DisasterAssistance.gov will speed the application process and allow you to check the progress of your application online."
[Gibberish from the website:
Take Full Pre-Screening Questionnaire
Take an anonymous questionnaire to obtain and apply for the most accurate list of disaster forms of assistance for which you may be eligible.
[I clicked on the link but didn't answer ANY of the questions... Seems I'm still eligible for three forms of assistance! Bob]
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