Lorenzo's Security Blog

  Image via Wikipedia Because of an incorrect security setting,[which security setting was the student even allowed to access?] an Ocean Lakes High School student was able to access a temporary file [Why was this temporary file not deleted after is was used? ] on a server that contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students [...]

  Image via Wikipedia A cabinet full of documents with sensitive information was found sitting on the side of the road. A woman made the discovery about a month ago, she gave the documents to investigators with Aetna Insurance Co. The woman said she saw a bureau on the side of the road in front [...]

An Upper Darby man has been charged in a case of identity theft that officials say involved patients’ personal information taken from computers at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Image via Wikipedia Upper Darby police announced yesterday that Shacoy McNish, 27, has been charged with theft, receiving stolen property, identity theft, and related crimes. [...]

Image via Wikipedia A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia laptop computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 943 people was stolen from a car outside an employee’s home on Oct. 20. The billing information on the computer was password-protected, but an analysis found it was “possible to decode the security controls on the [...]

BALTIMORE (AP) ? A woman who worked as a patient services coordinator for Johns Hopkins Medicine has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing patient information. Thirty-one-year-old Michelle Courtney Johnson of Baltimore was also ordered at sentencing on Friday to pay more than Image via Wikipedia $200,000 in restitution. According to her plea [...]