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Google Webmaster Bug Provides Lessons for Identity Management in the Cloud
The Internet is ablaze with reports of a major security lapse in the access controls for Google Webmaster Tools. According to multiple reports, users who had previously had access to accounts and websites but subsequently had that access revoked found themselves again able to access tools like Google Analytics for websites they were no longer associated with. Most of the … Read more
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Tagged access controls, authentication error, cloud security, Google
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Utah’s “multilayer” security around health records
would be a bad joke, if there weren’t 800,000 victims
More on the big Utah health records breach: “Medical data on the state’s computers aren’t encrypted, noting federal rules don’t require it,” the Salt Lake City Tribune reports, citing technology services director Stephen Fletcher. And the server was breached because a technician used a weak password. Take a couple of moments to digest that.
